[Buildroot] Slow boots caused by ca520507fc15a8213334a76339a3e6d567e91ea0 (udev, inittab)

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:19:36 +0300
Diego Iastrubni <diegoiast at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am seeing that my boot is now ~60 seconds, and hte boots hangs ~40 secs
> while starting udev.
> 
> This is caused by ca520507fc15a8213334a76339a3e6d567e91ea0 which claims that
> /sys/ and friends are moutned by inittab. I found no such code in the
> ininttab installed is my unit,  and the inittab available in the head
> (59af9a8..ce1ae87)  in fs/skeleton/etc/inittab does not mount /sys/ at boot
> time. Reverting the inittab to the one before this change fixes the boot
> time.

Well inittab does "mount -a" and /etc/fstab says that sysfs should be
mounted.

Moreover the ca520507fc15a8213334a76339a3e6d567e91ea0 you're pointing
did not change the inittab, so I don't know how reverting could modify
the inittab. Are you referring to the udev startup script ?

Regards,

Thomas
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