<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I had the "waiting for udev events" earlier this year. I ended up reinstalling Arch because of a hard drive, so I didn't figure out what was causing it. Hitting the Enter key would usually make the computer continue booting, but it's not a solution. I would like to know what you find.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Bruce Ediger" <bediger@stratigery.com><br>To: clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:57:00 AM<br>Subject: [clue-tech] Need help diagnosing weird problem<br><br>I'm not even sure how to phrase this one, so please excuse the long-winded<br>explanation.<br><br>Hardware:<br>HP Pavilion mini-tower, 2.2 GHz Celeron, Intel 82xxx chipset.<br>Basic IDE disk, all of this vintage 2003 or so.<br><br>I've been running Arch linux on the thing, and it's worked out reasonably<br>well, with the exception of a frighteningly buggy "Brookdale" graphics<br>chipset X11 driver. I've had to downgrade to Xorg 1.6-something, and<br>appropriate DRI and Mesa and OpenGL downgrades just to keep X from<br>freezing the display every 32 seconds.<br><br>I did a "pacman -Syu" over the weekend, and ended up rebooting on Sunday<br>night, because the Arch Overlords pushed a new kernel - 2.6.36-something.<br><br>The system hasn't worked correctly since. The first few times I booted<br>it, X locked up, making me think that Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset<br>Integrated Graphics Device problems had returned.<br><br>After that, booting has become progressively less reliable. A multitude of<br>symptoms have happened. I rarely get it to boot successfully. With the<br>Arch kernel:<br><br>Most often: after the "Waiting for UDEV events" line in the boot, I get<br>a stack trace ending in "<IRQ>"<br><br>Sometimes: when the boot sequence gets to "Decompressing Linux...", it hangs.<br><br>Rarely: a kernel panic ending in "Unable to handle kernel paging request<br>at 4a67be00"<br><br>Once: what looked like an infinite stack trace scrolled up the screen for<br>a long time, before I pulled the power cord.<br><br>I have booted from a Slackware 13.1 install CD, but even that's not super<br>reliable. It took 2 or 3 tries to get to the shell prompt. e2fsck claimed<br>the IDE disks were fine.<br><br>I booted "memtest 4.10" from CD, and ran it for 3 passes with no errors,<br>based on a suggestion I found in the Arch forums. I haven't seen anyone<br>else claiming to have problems since the last kernel push, so maybe it's<br>just this PC.<br><br>I'm puzzled. Anybody got any ideas? Is the CPU shot (specifically the MMU)?<br>Is a memory stick gone bad? Is the disk weird?<br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-tech mailing list<br>clue-tech@cluedenver.org<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-tech<br></div></body></html>