[horay] hotplug hangs system after inital install

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:02:45AM -0400, mat nicholson wrote:

> after the inital install, the sytem reboots and when it gets to hotplug, 
> it just hangs there. this is a dell demension 4500s, with a radeon video 
> card (also has on board video). have tried unplugging/removing 
> everything except keyboard and mouse (on-board video cannot be 
> disabled). this happened with an RC and the final release. any help? any 
> ideas? any way to disable hotplug, and if so, what would the downside be?

hotplug is responsible for loading drivers for your hardware; you should not
disable it.

There are some instructions here:

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DebuggingSystemCrash

to get a trace from the crash.  It would also be good (if you are able to
mount your root filesystem using the installer environment or other means)
to edit /etc/default/rcS and set VERBOSE to "yes", which should allow you to
see each module being loaded by hotplug.  Make a note of which module is
hanging.

I can't stress enough that bugs like this need to be reported to Bugzilla.
You discovered this problem well before the final release; it's quite
possible that it could have been tracked down and fixed.

-- 
 - mdz