On one of my computers with a fresh install of Kubuntu 10.04 64Bit I'm experiencing exactly the same problem.
The only obvious side effect is, that the error message is displayed for so long, that the Plymouth boot screen doesn't show up at all. Right after the error message disappears, KDM is already starting. Strangely I can't find this error message in any of the logs (dmesg, udev...). It's just visible during bootup. Hardware: Intel DG33TL board Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 CPU harddisk: Samsung SpinPoint T166 160GB SATA II DVD-RW: LG GSA-H62N AHCI is enabled in the BIOS. It's a Kubuntu intall mostly with default options (not encrypted home directoy or such things). Though in the installer I did choose to create the partitions manually in order to have / and /home on seperate partitions. -- Possible device error upon booting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567648 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to Mythbuntu. Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: New Bug description: On bootup seeing a possible error: udevd-work (344). Open /dev/null failed no such device. The error number will change from boot to boot. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

