Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-13 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 13, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > > > Does udevd normally have multiple processes? > Yes. It would be useful to determine if the problem is that: > - there is a race between the initial wildcard expansion by the shell > and

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 13, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > Does udevd normally have multiple processes? Yes. It would be useful to determine if the problem is that: - there is a race between the initial wildcard expansion by the shell and further forking by udev, or - the killed processes do not die quickly enou

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-13 Thread josh
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:46:23AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 11, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > bind(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/org/kernel/udev/udevd"}, 25) = -1 > > > EADDRINUSE > > > (Address already in use) > > OK, so it looks like that there *is* an udevd process left around by >

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > bind(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/org/kernel/udev/udevd"}, 25) = -1 > > EADDRINUSE > > (Address already in use) > OK, so it looks like that there *is* an udevd process left around by > the initramfs. > Can you confirm this with ps at the first prompt? If thi

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, Josh Triplett wrote: > bind(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/org/kernel/udev/udevd"}, 25) = -1 > EADDRINUSE > (Address already in use) OK, so it looks like that there *is* an udevd process left around by the initramfs. Can you confirm this with ps at the first prompt? -- ciao, Marco

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 08, Josh Triplett wrote: > Any chance this represents a conflict with udev from the initramfs? This is the only explanation, but in this case you should see the old process with ps. Try again by immediately running something like "strace -v -s 200 udevd" at the shell prompt so we can see e

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-07 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: udev Version: 168-1 Followup-For: Bug #624469 One more note: this occurred after a fresh install of stable and upgrade to unstable, with no unusual steps taken. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Archi

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start.

2011-05-07 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: udev Version: 168-1 Followup-For: Bug #624469 retitle 624469 Fails to start: failed to bind control socket (address in use) thanks I've just checked, and if I boot the system with init=/bin/sh and then manually run the first two rcS.d scripts (mountkernfs and udev), udev starts just fine

Bug#624469: Intermittent failure to start. Timestamp conflict?

2011-05-07 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: udev Version: 168-1 Followup-For: Bug #624469 I experience this problem as well. It definitely has nothing to do with timestamps; I use UTC, and time doesn't jump forward or backward during the boot process. When udev attempts to start during the boot process, it complains that it can't