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udev package

  1. Bug #332270
  2. Comment #92

Comment 92 for bug 332270

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Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote : Re: [Bug 332270] Re: udev repeatedly generates "change" events for the same block device(s)

> Only, unfortunately, two or more of those are the same real device. A
> race condition (which would probably be aggravated by SMP systems) can
> then occur where a potentially infinite loop of self-chaining change
> events starts. I would presume that at some point it either overflows
> or bogs down to the point where so many instances are spawned that it
> causes the lag and then lets you past.

hmm... seems to be true. I just disabled one core started udev and
enabled core again. It's working.

  echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  /etc/init.d/udev start
  echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online