When live booting, we need to make sure the running udev processes are killed to avoid unexepected behavior, we do this just before switching root, once we do, a new udev process will be spawned from init and will take care of whatever work was still missing
[YOCTO #9520] Signed-off-by: Alejandro Hernandez <[email protected]> --- meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh index 09fb479..441b41c 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh +++ b/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ read_args() { boot_live_root() { # Watches the udev event queue, and exits if all current events are handled udevadm settle --timeout=3 --quiet - killall "${_UDEV_DAEMON##*/}" 2>/dev/null + # Kills the current udev running processes, which survived after + # device node creation events were handled, to avoid unexpected behavior + killall -9 "${_UDEV_DAEMON##*/}" 2>/dev/null # Allow for identification of the real root even after boot mkdir -p ${ROOT_MOUNT}/media/realroot -- 2.6.6 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
