Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 00:51 +0200, Alan Pevec wrote:
mkliveinitrd: wait for udev queue to clear before killing udevd

udevd doesn't seem to cleanup on kill, so let it clear events from 
/dev/.udev/queue/

Or should this be filed as udevd bug (cleanup .udev/queue/ on startup and/or 
kill) ?

We've already done one udevsettle for 30 seconds -- how does this any
more guarantee that things are cleared?  I suspect this should probably

We do dmsetup etc. in the meantime so more udev events appear. And if all is 
good, it won't hang 30 sec, it continues immediately.

btw, we have unconditional 5s sleep here: 
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=mkinitrd;a=blob;f=mkliveinitrd;h=84fcc8036d47613e33c6f3c79003900ae7b6fcae;hb=HEAD#l653
Can we remove that?

be handled in udev.  But what exactly are you seeing as the symptom?

start_udev after switching root times out (after default 180s) on its 
udevsettle and after boot is finished, I still see an event 
/devices/virtual/block/dm-1 in exported queue /dev/.udev/queue/ - I assume this 
is b/c we killed previous instance of udevd before event could be cleared.
It's a race condition - for me it shows up when PXE booting oVirt liveCD 
(created with livecd-iso-to-pxeboot), never when booting the same ISO directly 
(both F9 KVM guests on F8 host). If I add eshell, which pauses just before 
killing udevd, event is cleared.

I agree this might be seen as a workaround but killing udevd just like that 
doesn't seem polite.
Then again udevd should prolly clear its exported queue on startup, so I'm 
CCing Harald to weigh in.

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