[arch-general] Fw: Re: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

[gt]

Well it would seem he still found it useful. But forgot to cc the
mailing list.

----- Forwarded message from Rob Lewis <rrl125 at gmail.com> -----

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:20:20 -0500
From: Rob Lewis <rrl125 at gmail.com>
To: gt <codered12 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

Thanks! That thread at least confirms that two others will the same laptop
are having the same issue.  As for what the problem is, not quite sure yet
but I will try reverting to a older kernel.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, gt <codered12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:45:54PM -0500, Rob Lewis wrote:
> > I am running into an issue I have never really run into in the past with
> my
> > current laptop. Upon installing arch linux I reboot and face the
> following
> > issue which hangs forever during the bot process:
> >
> > Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]
> >
> > I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with NVidia Optimus and I enabled NVidia
> > Discrete mode in the BIOS. I cannot boot into my system after
> installation,
> > however sometimes it will skip by this error and I will lose all keyboard
> > input and cannot login as a result. My workaround for the moment is to
> put
> > the BIOS into Optimus mode (Intel and NVidia cards are enabled) and use
> the
> > Intel video driver. I have tried nomodeset during the boot process but no
> > luck. Googling the problem i find most people get a timeout after 30
> > seconds to find out what is causing the problem, but my system hangs
> > forever.
> >
> > Is anyone else running into this issue or experienced enough to help me
> > find out what the problem is? I have been running Arch since August 2011
> > with no issues up until now.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated,
> >   -Rob
>
> Maybe this thread can help. Many people seem to have problems with udev
> recently.
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012
>
> --
> O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
>

----- End forwarded message -----