Problems with UDEV

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Problems with UDEV

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[Problem]

When booting, the system needs a minute or more until "Populating /dev with device nodes..." is done with .. well... populating /dev with device nodes. Who would have known...

In some cases, it even hangs the box, and freezes after intializing scsi raids (as in our case).


[Solution]
We downloaded and compiled the newest udev.tar.gz and built it. Not only does the box boot from the scsi raid now, also the populating of the /dev dir takes only a few seconds now!

[Notes]
When doing make test, you might encounter an error: it can not find "tree". The source for this is barely 25kB, and its compiled in a second, so thats really not a problem. For some weird reason you still get an error for the user "nobody" and "mail", but since we dont have those users, we just ignored it - and everything works well, so far.

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