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Re: [kernel] char/raw.c devfs support

To: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [kernel] char/raw.c devfs support
From: Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 Feb 2002 09:53:20 +0100
Cc: "'Thierry Vignaud'" <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Richard Gooch'" <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "'devfs mailing list'" <devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Frederic Lepied'" <flepied@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>>>> "borsenkow" == Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> 
>> the /dev/log problem has been traced back to the following portion of
>> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit :
>> 
>> 
>> # Restart devfsd actions now that the filesystems are ready
>> if [ -c /dev/.devfsd ]; then
>> if [ -x /sbin/devfsd ]; then
>> # cleanup dynamic desktop directories before calling devfsd
borsenkow> actions
>> rm -f /usr/share/gnome/desktop/*
borsenkow> /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop/*
>> 
>> action "Running devfsd actions: " killall -HUP devfsd
>> fi
>> fi
>> 
>> 
>> sometimes, the bootstraping process wait for minutes because of some
>> sort of race between devfsd and minilogd (remeber syslogd hasn't yet
>> be started since it's a service launched after rc.sysinit let rc play
>> with init levels.
>> 

borsenkow> Is it related to those lockups with "Loading compose table ..." as 
the
borsenkow> last message?


Yes.

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