Hi Akemi,

thanks a lot for testing!

I still don't know how to fix this problem. I have to investigate
further ...

Cheers,

    Urs



On 06/02/2010 02:31 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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
>