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