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SubjectRe: [bug] /etc/profile: line 30: /dev/null: Permission denied (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster)
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:43:33AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> >
>> > Self-contained /dev is great, udev is a total PITA on older distros (on
>> > this box it sometimes takes 3 minutes for udev to boot ...) so turning
>> > on devtmpfs and getting something functional in exchange is a big
>> > selling point IMO.
>>
>> udev taking 3 minutes usually means you have a kernel driver bug,
>> udev doesn't have a sleep for 3 minutes, it loads drivers and usually
>> waits for them to finish. Since someone decided to merge a stupid
>> floppy PNP match I've seen a lot of floppyless machines hit a 30sec
>> udev delay. so many that we disabled the pnp floppy on Fedora.
>
> Woah, I've run into this problem as well.  Where is this PNP floppy
> match so I can disable it?
>
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/kernel/F-12/die-floppy-die.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup

is what we are shipping currently, see if it helps.

Dave.
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