Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 System Hangs on udev During Reboot for About 45-60 minutes

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Repartitioned majority of the disks under powerpath.
  • Removed them from Oracle asm and added them back.
  • Errors reported to console.
    Starting udev: udevd-event[xxxxx]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/devices/0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:00:00.0/hostX/rport-X:0-X/targetX:X:X/X:X:X:XX/ioerr_cnt' failed
  • high %cpu by hald daemon after we are able to login
     PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
7656 haldaemo  15   0 57388  19m 2428 R 64.5  0.0   0:24.94 hald
7657 root      16   0 21688 1140  880 S  0.7  0.0   0:00.25 hald-runner

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3
  • 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 24 12:05:57 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 
  • udev
  • hal

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