Comment 12 for bug 28439

=> Interesting ... I bet I know what the bug is, we must be killing udevd in the initramfs while it's still processing events

Probably, and that may be the problem with bug 29541 as well. Older BIOSs were so darned buggy...

=> I never thought of that ... amazing that it's happening so damned consistently for you, perhaps the problem is that you have a USB device that's taking a metric week to initialise

Yes! And the winner is the UPS: its USB interface is slower than a sloth in painkillers. I have played with plugging and unplugging my USB toyz and now I am typing this from Dapper (today's vintage).

Yet, I don't want to lose my ability to shutdown automagically this box if power cuts off. I wonder if the detection of usbhid devices can be sent to the background somehow...