There is some solution I've cooked up. I'll ask for your help soon
sent from a Smartph0ne... excuse typ0s On Jun 20, 2011 3:12 PM, "Helge Hafting" <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote: > I have partitions for /, /var, /usr, /home, and /usr/src. > > The machine is a Dell latitude D830, running debian testing. > > I don't boot it every week, but lately I have seen large sets of: > > udevd: failed to execute /usr/sbin/laptop_mode .... > > Unfortunately, this does not seem to be logged anywhere, so I can't > get the exact messages. > > If /usr is not mounted, then no surprise that it can't execute the program. > > If this binary is to be used by udev, then it must move to somewhere > (such as /sbin) that is accessible when udev runs. The same goes for any > supporting files that may be needed. > > A setup with /usr on a partition of its own is common, it allows a > read-only mounted /usr. > > udev runs before mounting filesystems, because some setups need udev > actions in order to make the other disk devices available. So, either > laptop-mode stuff moves out of /usr, or it should be decoupled from > udev so it can run a little later. > > Maybe running laptop-mode later is best - or do we need power-saving > from the first 10s of bootup? > > Helge Hafting > >
