On a hunch, I decided to try testing for an undocumented dependency between udev and dbus.
Installing dbus failed to fix udev hang upon start. # dpkg-query -l dbus udev Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-================-================-================================================ un dbus <none> (no description available) ii udev 151-12.3 rule-based device node and kernel event manager # apt-get install dbus Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: dbus-x11 Recommended packages: consolekit The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 189kB of archives. After this operation, 618kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main dbus 1.2.16-2ubuntu4 [189kB] Fetched 189kB in 1s (157kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously deselected package dbus. (Reading database ... 31546 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dbus (from .../dbus_1.2.16-2ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2ubuntu4) ... Adding system user `messagebus' (UID 107) ... Adding new group `messagebus' (GID 111) ... Adding new user `messagebus' (UID 107) with group `messagebus' ... Not creating home directory `/var/run/dbus'. dbus start/running, process 4833 # status udev udev start/running, process 348 # stop udev udev stop/waiting # status udev udev stop/waiting r# start udev Terminated # status udev udev start/starting -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674704 Title: "restart udev" hangs -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
