[oe] udev hangs on boot

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Fri Aug 20 14:32:46 UTC 2010


On 08/20/2010 01:55 AM, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've built the standard console-image for the SMDK6410 platform using
> the configuration provided by oe. The problem is that when I boot the
> image over the network, and then mount the rootfs over nfs, the system
> hangs before even entering runlevel 5. If I chmod -x udev udev-cache in
> the init scripts then I can get a usable system which I can ssh into.
> I've also tried to use a snapshot from Linus's git however the same
> problem appeared.

Look in /etc/network/interfaces (I think, not at a desk where I can 
check) and comment out the line auto eth0. I think the bootscripts take 
the interface down and up and that is bad if you are using root over nfs.

Philip


>
> I am using the latest snapshot of oe as of now and bitbake 1.8.18. The
> version of udev appears to be 151. My target distro is angstrom-2008.1.
> I've also tried to build a base-image and a bootstrap-image and I had
> the same problem.
>
> I've attached my oe kernel configuration, my oe local.conf as well as
> the boot process log.
>
> Thanks,
> Dimitrios
>
>
>
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