Hi Todd,

The freeze took place at random.

The network-manager app caused inconsistencies in NIC naming, which appeared
to propagate to the udev persistent net rules.

Best wishes,

Ian

On Mon, 19 May 2014 11:34:20 -0700, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On 05/18/2014 05:21 AM, Ian Williams wrote:
>> Hi Todd,
>>
>> I think I may have had the same problem on a 64bit system.
>>
>> The computer seems to freeze at boot, while the "starting udev" message is
>> displayed.
>>
>> The problem was not related to hardware in the machine, it was related to an
>> incorrectly configured NIC. I edited the configuration file
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. In my case it was due to an
>> incorrect hardware address and the BOOTP directive.
>>
>> I hope this information can help you further diagnose the problem.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Ian
>
>Hi Ian,
>
>What the freeze reproducible every boot, or was
>it random?
>
>Many thanks,
>-T
>
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