Bug#790561: After upgrading udev from 215-18 to 220-7 or 221-1, the system is unbootable afterwards

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 30.06.2015 um 10:18 schrieb Klaus Ethgen:
> Package: udev
> Version: 220-7
> Severity: critical
> 
> After upgrading my system from 215-18 to 220-7 or 221-1, (only udev
> changes), my system is not bootable anymore.
> 
> Here is all the informations I have:
> I first upgraded to 221-1 and then did the reboot. After that, the
> system freezes after the SCSI initialisation.
> 
> After several tries the system finally booted (after ~5 minutes) with
> many errors and showing many timeout of nonexisting devices with an
> sequence counter aroung 3000(!) that shows that udev tries to loop over
> all available and unavailable USB devices and freezes there with one or
> another nonexisting device combination. It craped out, for example,
> trying to find a joystick device on a keyboard (the system has no
> joystick at all).
> 
> Downgrading to 220-7 makes the problem even worse. Then it seems to loop
> over all USB devices twice what has twice the change to freeze.

Is this reproducible with systemd as PID 1 as well?
Is this reproducible with a Debian provided kernel?
Have you made sure that your kernel has all options enabled as specified
in /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz?




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