Comment 58 for bug 842560

I am in asimilar situation. We have plenty of HP Proliants 380G5 and a few DELL Poweredge 1950s. On HPs we have done fresh install of 11.10 server from Debian Etch. Ethernet cards did not recognised but rmmod bnx2, modprobe bnx2 trick resolved the problem. On first Poweredege 1950 a do-release-upgrade cycle from 10.10 to 11.10 worked pretty well besides one ethernet NIC did not worked (eth1 was working and eth0 was not) same rmmod bnx2, modprobe bnx2 trick resolves the problem here. I was cancelling second Poweredge 1950 upgrade since our Jira/Confluence+svn was working on it. It is identical in terms of hardware with the first. After upgrading 10.10 to 11.04 everything was fine (incl. ethernets). After 11.04 to 11.10
upgrade, system does not boot, it is in the same situation the message

udevd[107]: '/sbin/modprobe -bv pci:v000014E4d0000164Csv00001028sd000001B2bc02sc00i00' [172] terminated by signal 9 (Killed)

 message is on screen.
I am on kernel 3.0.0-14-server

This was yesterday and today I have tried to open the system with a live CD. Mount the file system add the "blacklist bnx2" line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but no luck on first reboot.

No offense but I understand that developers really work hard and release a new version of udev but to "Precise". Unfortunately ordinary users such as me are on "Oneiric". I will try to install udev by hand and report situation.
Thanks for all
Happy new year.