System pauses for several minutes when starting udev. The message "No buffer space available" printed to the console.

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Issue

  • System pauses for several minutes when starting udev.
    Starting udev: Wait timeout. Will continue in the backgroun[FAILED]
    
    udevd[948]: get_netlink_msg: unable to receive kenel netlink message: No buffer space available
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • SAN

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