On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Akemi,
>
> Thanks for testing.
>
> I had other users reporting this problem with SL5.1 and SL5.2 LiveCD. It
> seems to be really hardware dependent. For the users I know the problem
> went away using SL 5.4. I don't know how often this happens and whether
> the problem is back again in SL5.5 LiveCD. As far as I remember the
> problem did not happen all the time. It was not reproducible. However,
> it seems to be reproducible on your system...? In the cases I know, udev
> was hanging running "/lib/udev/udev_run_hotplugd". Could you please test
> the following on your system - if possible ;-)
>
> - is the centos livecd working?
> - is the SL 5.5. 32bit LiveCD (or LiveDVD) working?

Hi Urs,

I have done the testing as requested using LiveCDs.

(1) SL 5.5 i386 -- same failure as before (udev step). It boots my
Sony laptop fine.
(2) SL 5.5 x86_64 -- same failure as before (udev step).
(3) CentOS 5.5 i386 -- fails but goes a little further. It boots my
Sony laptop fine.
(4) CentOS 5.5 x86_64 -- boots fine.

Each test was done only once, so I cannot speak about the reproducibility.

The motherboard of the failing machine is Asus M2NPV-VM. Its Nvidia
controller is affected by a known bug in RHEL 5.5 (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586532 ). Not sure if this
is related at all.

Akemi