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I'm running an Athlon XP 3200+, 1Gb RAM, onboard sound, rad 9600XT 256Mb (ATI drivers refuse to work damnit. but thats another story). I have fedora core 3 installed, with a custom 2.6.8.1 kernel - mainly to get ntfs support. FC3 uses udev, and recently i have had some problems with it. When booting it sometimes decides that it will hang, other times it works perfectly. I have changed nothing in between - i just hit the power when it hangs and try again. sometimes it works first time, other times it can take up to 8 tries.. It is starting to really annoy me. I wondered if anyone has any ideas what could cause this random behavior? I don't know much about udev, so patronize me lol.

dmesg output:
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Linux version 2.6.8.1 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #2 Fri Mar 18 14:16:13 GMT 2005

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)

 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)

 BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)

 BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

127MB HIGHMEM available.

896MB LOWMEM available.

On node 0 totalpages: 262128

  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1

  Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16

  HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7

DMI 2.3 present.

ACPI: RSDP (v000 KT400                                    ) @ 0x000f8780

ACPI: RSDT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3000

ACPI: FADT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3040

ACPI: MADT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff6ac0

ACPI: DSDT (v001 KT400  AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000

ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008

Built 1 zonelists

Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda2 init 3

Initializing CPU#0

PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)

Detected 1732.403 MHz processor.

Using pmtmr for high-res timesource

Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

Memory: 1034156k/1048512k available (2472k kernel code, 13452k reserved, 841k data, 152k init, 131008k highmem)

Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.

Calibrating delay loop... 3432.44 BogoMIPS

Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized

SELinux:  Initializing.

SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode

There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.

selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability

Capability LSM initialized as secondary

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000

CPU: After vendor identify, caps:  0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000

CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)

CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)

CPU: After all inits, caps:        0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020

Intel machine check architecture supported.

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm)  stepping 00

Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

checking if image is initramfs... it is

Freeing initrd memory: 484k freed

NET: Registered protocol family 16

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbb70, last bus=1

PCI: Using configuration type 1

mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)

ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326

ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.

ACPI: Interpreter enabled

ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing

ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0, disabled.

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled.

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled.

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled.

usbcore: registered new driver usbfs

usbcore: registered new driver hub

PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6

apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)

apm: overridden by ACPI.

audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)

audit(1117220229.689:0): initialized

highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages

Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0

VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1

Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks

Initializing Cryptographic API

ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)

ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2)

ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (46 C)

Real Time Clock Driver v1.12

Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones

agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M

agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000

Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled

ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize

divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

VP_IDE: chipset revision 6

VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1

    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio

    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

hda: ST360012A, ATA DISK drive

Using anticipatory io scheduler

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdd: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

hda: max request size: 128KiB

hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/1024KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)

 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3

hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache

Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA

ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

usbcore: registered new driver hiddev

usbcore: registered new driver usbhid

drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1

serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 64Kbytes

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 37449)

Initializing IPsec netlink socket

NET: Registered protocol family 1

NET: Registered protocol family 17

ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)

Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed

SCSI subsystem initialized

libata version 1.02 loaded.

sata_sil version 0.54

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF883A080 ctl 0xF883A08A bmdma 0xF883A000 irq 11

ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF883A0C0 ctl 0xF883A0CA bmdma 0xF883A008 irq 11

ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f21 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:203f

ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 234441648 sectors: lba48

ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100

scsi0 : sata_sil

ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)

scsi1 : sata_sil

  Vendor: ATA      Model: WDC WD1200JD-00G  Rev: 02.0

  Type:  Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05

SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)

SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back

 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3

Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

SELinux:  Disabled at runtime.

SELinux:  Unregistering netfilter hooks

inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8.1

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.20-2.6 May-23-2004 Written by Donald Becker

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0

eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xeb002000, 00:10:dc:df:fc:b9, IRQ 10.

eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 0021.

via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.

        Please try dxs_support=1 or dxs_support=4 option

        and report if it works on your machine.

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.3[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0

ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 11, pci mem f8927000

ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10

hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected

USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 10, io base 0000b400

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 11, io base 0000b800

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3

hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.2[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 5, io base 0000bc00

uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4

hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using address 2

input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Trackball] on usb-0000:00:10.1-1

ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]

ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]

EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal

device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com

cdrom: open failed.

cdrom: open failed.

kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal

EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

Adding 2047744k swap on /dev/hda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1

ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 320 bytes per conntrack

i2c /dev entries driver

NET: Registered protocol family 10

Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03fb700(lo)

IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver

divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0

eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Thanks.