Re: udevinfo messages

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:55 +0100, Dieter Stüken wrote:
> While trying to get 2.6.11 running on my Suse 9.1 system I encountered some
> problems with mkinitrd and the udev package Suse uses (seems to be a patched
> udev-052 version). I noticed a few funny synlinks within /dev:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.196950896 +0100 device2 -> hda2
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.196950896 +0100 not2 -> hda2
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.196950896 +0100 found2 -> hda2
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.196950896 +0100 in2 -> hda2
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.196950896 +0100 database2 -> hda2
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.471909096 +0100 device1 -> hdc1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.471909096 +0100 not1 -> hdc1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.471909096 +0100 found1 -> hdc1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.471909096 +0100 in1 -> hdc1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.471909096 +0100 database1 -> hdc1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-03-21 15:33:54.785861368 +0100 mknod: -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-03-21 15:33:54.785861368 +0100 No -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-03-21 15:33:54.785861368 +0100 such -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-03-21 15:33:54.785861368 +0100 file -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-03-21 15:33:54.785861368 +0100 or -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 2005-03-21 15:33:54.785861368 +0100 directory\nata_identify: -> hda
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.844852400 +0100 mknod:1 -> hdg1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.844852400 +0100 No1 -> hdg1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.844852400 +0100 such1 -> hdg1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.844852400 +0100 file1 -> hdg1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.844852400 +0100 or1 -> hdg1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-03-21 15:33:54.844852400 +0100 directory1 -> hdg1
> 
> I don't know exactly, what caused this in depth. But I found udevinfo
> prints all error messages to stdout instead of using stderr, like:
> 
> if (retval != 0) {
>      printf("device not found in database\n");
>      goto exit;
> }

Ah, ok. I will change this. Thanks!

> seems this is taken as a list of symliks to create.

This looks pretty funny. :)

> Seems there is some "ata_identify" utility involved, but I could not find
> how this is used. It does not apear within the official udev-056 release.
> Seems to be some SuSE/Redhad addition.
> 
> Can some one give me a hint, how to debug this? During boot there are some
> messages scrolling by, but finally the console-font gets switched which clips
> off my console history :-(

You may search for PROGRAM= keys in all files in:
  /etc/udev/rules.d/

This is the only way to call external stuff from udev. One of these
rules should match for ide-block-devices and seems to call udevinfo.

Good luck,
Kay



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