devfs/hotplug not working
Peter L. Peres
plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 19 15:46:57 UTC 2004
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, JoeHill wrote:
>> grep /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug /etc/init.d/*
>
> Nuttin' Honey ;-) So, if there's nothing in init.d, how the heck does Mandrake
> start hotplug running in the background at boot?
It's them lixies (= linux pixies) working in the background. Probably from
the initrd.
> Well, after over a hundred days, I figured it was time to power down and blow
> the dust out anyway. Actually found cobwebs and a dead bug. Booted back up and,
> of course, all is now working normally again.
Do cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug and find out the truth for next time ?
Peter
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