Dracut time out on

English Install/Boot/Login
1

I have:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20250606"
ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
ID_LIKE="opensuse suse"
VERSION_ID="20250606"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
# CPE 2.3 format, boo#1217921
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20250606:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
#CPE 2.2 format
#CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20250606"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.opensuse.org"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Tumbleweed"

I use the kernel-longterm, with 6.12.31-1-longterm, I get:

dracut time out while waiting for udev queue to empty

And then it hangs. I waiting as much as 10mn before shutting down.

It works fine with:

uname -a
Linux dodoite 6.12.30-1-longterm #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 22 14:01:31 UTC 2025 (93e93f1) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Am I the only one? or is this specific to me?

$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.12.30-1-longterm arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.48 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0
    with: xfce4-panel tools: xfce4-screensaver vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250606
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware m16 R2 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Alienware model: 0MNHT9 v: A01 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 0C91 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Alienware v: 1.11.0
    date: 03/03/2025
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 44.4 Wh (54.2%) condition: 81.9/88.2 Wh (92.9%)
    volts: 11.6 min: 11.7 model: SMP DELL M9DG052E type: Li-poly
    serial: <filter> status: not charging cycles: 5
CPU:
  Info: 16-core (6-mt/10-st) model: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP smt: enabled arch: Meteor Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 1.6 MiB
    L2: 18 MiB L3: 24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1355 min/max: 400/4800:5100:3800:2500 cores: 1: 1355
    2: 1355 3: 1355 4: 1355 5: 1355 6: 1355 7: 1355 8: 1355 9: 1355 10: 1355
    11: 1355 12: 1355 13: 1355 14: 1355 15: 1355 16: 1355 17: 1355 18: 1355
    19: 1355 20: 1355 21: 1355 22: 1355 bogomips: 135168
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: N/A
    arch: Xe-LPG bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d55 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Dell
    driver: nvidia v: 570.153.02 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
    ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1,eDP-1 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:28e0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_FHD driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-9:6 chip-ID: 0bda:557c
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0
    driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting,vesa
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0.0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: not-matched mapped: DP-2 size-res: N/A modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: not-matched mapped: HDMI-0 pos: primary res: mode: 2560x1440
    hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23")
    diag: 685mm (26.97") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.153.02 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings
    gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P HD Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e28
    class-ID: 0401
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:22be class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.30-1-longterm status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.4 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek Killer E3000 2.5GbE vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 2e:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:3000
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp46s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 7 AX1775 /AX1790 /BE20 /BE401/BE1750 2x2
    driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 2f:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:272b class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp47s0f0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 83.79 GiB (8.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: 2550 1024GB size: 953.87 GiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 25500201
    temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 123.31 GiB used: 16.47 GiB (13.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.8 MiB (1.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-3: /home size: 782.51 GiB used: 67.32 GiB (8.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 31.45 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: 54.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 50 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.86 GiB used: 2.3 GiB (7.4%)
  Processes: 375 Power: uptime: 5h 43m states: freeze,mem,disk
    suspend: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: gcc: 14.3.0 alt: 15
    Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.37
2

Usually dracut should drop you into emergency shell in such cases. You said “shutting down” which implies you could interact with the system. Is it correct?

3

No. This is not a regular laptop were you press the power button for 4 seconds and it turns itself of like my previous dells and lenovos.

With this alienware (from dell), when I hold the power button down in the middle of some hang-up/crash, it takes about 30 seconds to turn itself off but at the same time it does some kind of shutdown.

Dracut never went into the shell so I could do a “real” shutdown shutdown -h now.

Thanks

4

Is it literal error message? Because I cannot find it (or parts thereof) in the dracut source code.

5

Yep! Just check my logs

$ sudo journalctl  | grep "udev"

Jun 09 06:19:05 dodoite systemd-udevd[487]: USBC000:00: Worker [524] processing SEQNUM=2220 is taking a long time
Jun 09 06:19:05 dodoite systemd-udevd[487]: USBC000:00: Worker [499] processing SEQNUM=2326 is taking a long time
Jun 09 06:19:05 dodoite systemd-udevd[487]: 0000:00:15.2: Worker [502] processing SEQNUM=2261 is taking a long time
Jun 09 06:19:05 dodoite systemd-udevd[487]: 0000:00:15.0: Worker [506] processing SEQNUM=2260 is taking a long time
Jun 09 06:19:05 dodoite systemd-udevd[487]: 0000:00:0d.0: Worker [531] processing SEQNUM=2255 is taking a long time
>>>Jun 09 06:20:04 dodoite dracut-initqueue[576]: Timed out while waiting for udev queue to empty.<<<
Jun 09 06:20:04 dodoite systemd[1]: systemd-udev-trigger.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 09 06:20:04 dodoite systemd[1]: Stopped Coldplug All udev Devices.

Thanks

6

You say it hangs, how can you login and invoke journalctl then?

Please upload full output of

journalctl -b --full --no-pager

to https://paste.opensuse.org/

7

I think that you misunderstand my current status.

  1. upgraded from # VERSION=“20250602” to # VERSION=“20250606” which upgraded the long-term kernel to 6.12.31-1-longterm
  2. crash during the boot with the last message being:
dracut-initqueue[576]: Timed out while waiting for udev queue to empty
  1. power off
  2. turn on the laptop but this time in grub, select: kernel 6.12.30-1-longterm
  3. it works.
  4. openSUSE Paste

Thanks