[arch-general] udev slow to start up

[Ty John (sand_man)]

Hi guys,

I have a brand new computer and every time it boots it stalls for a
while at "starting udev". Maybe about 10-15 seconds. Then when it gets
to the part "Waiting for udev events to be processed" it then stalls
for another 30 seconds or so.
When I boot from the Arch install disk I don't get the problem so I'm
guessing it's something to do with the version of udev or the kernel
maybe. I have udev-165 and udev-compat-165 installed and I have also
tried going back to udev-164 but it made no difference.

I get this in dmesg after boot. I know it's my sata DVD drive so here
is the output of 'dmesg | grep ata2'


[ty at donna ~]$ dmesg | grep ata2
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f180 irq 22
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C, SB04, max UDMA/100
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
ata2: hard resetting link
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2: EH complete
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
ata2: hard resetting link
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2: EH complete

Other than those error messages and the slow boot, the drive seems to
work fine. I have been able to read and burn discs with no problem.

If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.