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

[Rob Lewis]

Yeah sorry about that. The link is still useful as it confirms i'm not the
only one having the problem. I will take suggestions provided to find out
more detail on what is going on.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:08 AM, gt <codered12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
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