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  1. Bug #156428
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 156428

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Kaptain Chaos (kaptain-chaos) wrote :

I confirm this bug and just added an Open Question #16234. My details:

I upgraded Feisty to Gutsy but found Gutsy reboot hung with the message:

udevd-event[2118]: run_program : '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit
Busybox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5 ubuntu7) Built-in shell (ash)
(initramfs)

On typing return or exit Gutsy continues to boot BUT my 2nd hard drive, containing my Linux swap partition, isn't recognised (the drive also contains two network shared ntfs partitions). Rebooting into the 2.6.20-16 kernel (left over from the Feisty installation) loaded the 2nd drive with my Linux swap file but there were problems with X 'forgetting' the configuration file and dropping back to either a 640x480 or 800x600 safe mode resolution on reboot.

As this pc is a second machine I thought I'd experiment by wiping out the Ubuntu upgrade, trying a fresh install instead to see if that produced better results. Gutsy hung during the boot-up process with the same udevd-event report stopping at the initramfs prompt and the 2nd hard drive wasn't seen by the live CD either. Typing return or exit got the boot to continue. I still couldn't get the 2nd hard drive recognised from within the fresh Gutsy install either. There were a few problems getting the restricted driver working and my splash screen was the wrong resolution.

I re-installed Feisty, left it as a vanilla install (no n-Vidia restricted driver, sharing or any extra packages) and updated the system. All running smoothly. Rebooted and ran a system upgrade to Gutsy again - same problem, hanging at the udevd-event but this time the code was [2124] and no 2nd hard drive with Linux swap! Looking at other posts I tried booting into the 2.6.22-14 kernel and ran 'sudo update-initramfs -u' but the problem persisted.

Deciding to check /etc/fstab and /dev I think I may have discovered where the problem lies but am unsure how to fix it. Both fstab and /dev list my hard drives and partitions as hdax or hdbx NOT the now more common sdax or sdbx, There are no references to sd's in /dev although I believe initramfs is looking for drives with the 'sd' prefix in /dev (I only have hd's), despite how they are configured in fstab or /dev.

Can anyone help me please?