Comment 5 for bug 7366

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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:16:28 +0100
From: Sam Liddicott <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: hotplug: Hotplug on D-I RC1 causes continuous reboot cycle

Package: hotplug
Version: 0.0.20040329-12
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

I've installed SARGE using the debian-installer RC1.
When it boots for the first time to finishing configuration I find it reboots
after about a minute. This makes it impossible to use the machine for
anything except a demo of a re-booting machine.

This does NOT happen if I boot with init=/bin/bash

By removing /etc/init.d/hotplug I manage to stop the reboot cycle and also
thankfully the framebuffer stops being enabled.

Maybe hotplug isn't at fault but some of the modules it loads?
No idea. I am very happy to supply further information upon request.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages hotplug depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy
ii grep 2.5.1.ds1-2 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii modutils 2.4.26-1 Linux module utilities
ii procps 1:3.2.1-2 The /proc file system utilities

-- debconf information:
  hotplug/ignore_pci_class_display: true
  hotplug/net_agent_policy: hotplug
* hotplug/usb_keyboard:
  hotplug/static_module_list:
  hotplug/x11_usbmice_hack: false