Bug#771915: udev: Udev eats all memory because of a probably damaged partition table

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:31:24 +0100 Morel Berenger
<berenger.morel at neutralite.org> wrote:
> Package: udev
> Version: 175-7.2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When pluggin a hard-disk with (highly presumably) damaged partition table (or logical partition system, not sure exactly), udev starts lot of processes, each one eating lot of RAM. With swap enabled, it ends up in unusable system due to all the accesses to swap partition, making the system needing brutal reboot.

Is this problem still reproducible with udev v215 from jessie or udev
v220 from unstable?




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