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 >