Quoting Steve Langasek ([email protected]):
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:20:03AM -0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > also see bug 833891 as a udev bug specifically for the LVM case.
> 
> Do you mean you're already tracking the LVM case on that bug instead, and

I was, yes.  I filed that one some time ago to track the hang on my own
laptop.  I realize there are too many open bugs on this, and we should
mark some as dupes.

> that in the setup you're using there is *no* use of LVM?  I guess no
one

Yes.

> told Adam that this is a different bug, because it was his LVM-based setup
> that I was responding to... :)

Right.

> > In fact, Eduard toward the end speculated precisely the semaphore as a
> > cause as you just did.
> 
> That was Eduard's speculation, copied from the *other* bug I linked to.

Right.

NOTE though:

The LVM authors have admonished us for calling vgscan/vgchange in a udev
rule, as that has its own deadlock potential.  My debdiff in bug 833891
is meant to address that.  It sounds like that deadlock is separate from
the speculation above.  Although perhaps not - such a deadlock could
explain why a semaphore in udevd is not getting Vd (since udevd never
finishes its processing of that rule, but just gets killed on timeout)?

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