Package: udev
Version: 0.141-1
Severity: important

Following a large upgrade, my testing machine no longer boots correctly. It 
appears 
to hang, always at the same place, but will eventually continue. I have 
determined 
the following:

- The hang occurs after messages relating to the sound card and before messages 
  relating to the hard disk (the exact messages differ between kernels)
- Ctrl-C during the hang will allow the boot to continue
- It occurs with stock kernels 2.6.26-2-amd64, 2.6.28, 2.6.29, 2.6.30
- Rescue disks (testing of 04-Aug-2009 and 5.01) seem to boot correctly (the
  testing disk only works in graphical mode, but the problem with text mode
  doesn't appear to be the same, as the keyboard is hung also)
- The udev version on the testing rescue disk appears to be the same as that 
installed
- Reinstallation of the udev package doesn't help
- Reinstallation of the kernel doesn't help (tested for 2.6.26-2-amd64)
- Booting with UDEV_DISABLED=yes doesn't hang, but other things maybe don't 
work 
  afterwards (e.g. konsole doesn't reach a prompt) (tested with 2.6.30)
- bootchart seems to indicate that udev is holding things up and consuming near 
100% 
  CPU most of the time
- dumping process information with sysrq during the hang lists udevd, vol_id, 
  path_id, events/3 and sleep among runnable processes
- on a single occasion, repeating error messages from mptbase were reported (I 
didn't 
  note the exact message)
- fsck reports no issues on the filesystem
- Using Dell's bootable "Drivers and Utilities" disk to check the hardware 
reported 
  no failures on any test, in particular there were no issues with the hard 
disk or 
  sound card
- After adding udev_log="debug" in /etc/udev/udev.conf:
--- *many* console messages fly past during the hang
--- they include messages about sd_mod, bsg, block, so might indicate a disk 
issue
--- if the boot is allowed to continue spontaneously, these messages do not 
appear in the
    system log, but several segfaults in udev are reported in the log
--- if ctrl-c is issued during the hang, several hundred megabytes of udev 
messages are 
    written to the log
- googling for similar reports has not thrown up much (I have disabled the 
floppy in 
  the bios and blacklisted the floppy module; booting with pci=nomsi does not 
resolve 
  the problem either)

I am open to suggestions for how to decide whether this is a bug or a hardware 
problem.

I have most of the debugging output mentioned above available, but some of it 
is quite 
large, so I shall await instructions on what to send or how to analyse it.

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 128
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 2008-01-04 17:19 025_libgphoto2.rules -> 
../libgphoto2.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 2008-01-04 19:58 025_logitechmouse.rules -> 
../logitechmouse.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   495 2009-05-21 01:10 56-hpmud_support.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1137 2009-03-10 11:39 65_dmsetup.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   700 2008-01-04 17:11 70-persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   513 2009-08-05 11:28 70-persistent-net.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   283 2009-05-22 19:20 85_dmraid.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 2009-04-28 11:15 comedi.rules -> ../comedi.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 2008-03-05 12:05 libnjb.rules -> ../libnjb.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 2008-04-28 16:11 z60_hdparm.rules -> 
../hdparm.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  5354 2009-03-17 11:09 z60_hplip.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13445 2009-06-30 10:31 z60_iscan.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1240 2009-04-06 20:06 z60_kpartx.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1914 2007-12-31 17:57 z60_libccid.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2656 2008-02-16 18:00 z60_libpisock9.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1152 2009-05-06 14:26 z60_libsane-extras.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55330 2009-06-26 14:46 z60_libsane.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6658 2008-10-31 13:35 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/dev
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4/event4/dev
/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3/event3/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/bsg/sas_host6/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/bsg/end_device-6:0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.3/0000:05:0b.0/host6/port-6:0/end_device-6:0/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/bsg/6:0:0:0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input6/event6/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input7/event7/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input8/event8/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input9/event9/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/audio/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/controlC0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/dsp/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/hwC0D0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/mixer/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/0003:046D:C00C.0001/hidraw/hidraw0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input1/mouse1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/usb_device/usbdev2.2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.2_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/0003:413C:2003.0002/hidraw/hidraw1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.3_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/usb_device/usbdev2.3/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.3_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usbmon/usbmon2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/usb_endpoint/usbdev3.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usbmon/usbmon3/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev4.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/usb_endpoint/usbdev4.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usbmon/usbmon4/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/usb_endpoint/usbdev5.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usbmon/usbmon5/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usbmon/usbmon1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:0c:0a.0/fw0/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/ide0/0.0/block/hda/dev
/sys/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5/event5/dev
/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2/dev
/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:05/rtc/rtc0/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:06/ppdev/parport0/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:06/printer/lp0/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:07/tty/ttyS0/dev
/sys/devices/pnp0/00:08/tty/ttyS1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop0/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop1/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop2/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop3/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/block/loop4/dev
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/sys/devices/virtual/mem/kmem/dev
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/sys/devices/virtual/misc/cpu_dma_latency/dev
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/sys/devices/virtual/misc/hpet/dev
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/sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty/dev
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/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa7/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa/dev
/sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcs/dev

-- Kernel configuration:
 isapnp_init not present.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.9-12     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.82-1   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libvolume-id1                 0.141-1    libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-22     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

udev recommends no packages.

udev suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  udev/new_kernel_needed: false
  udev/reboot_needed:



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