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Re: how do I troubleshoot a udev freeze?
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 18 May 2014 14:38:07 -0400
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On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a rather "old" computer out in my shop with
> SL6.5, x64 on it.  It has run beautifully on Linux
> for years and years.
>
> Now, when it boots up, it freeze up at "udev".
> Nothing else shows other than udev.  I have to
> pull the power plug and try again.  Then it
> works fine.
>
> The symptom is reproducible with my Fedora Core 20
> Live USB flash drive.  Freeze up at the start of the
> Fedora Tear Drop logo.
>
> The RAID controller and everything else in BIOS
> always works.
>
> Any idea how to approach troubleshooting this?
> I figure it is either the motherboard, the memory,
> or the CPU.

Motherboard battery? Can you boot an Ubuntu Live CD, because those
tend to have more recent kernels than SL, and more stable ones than
Fedora.

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