Re: /dev/.udev/failed/devices@... problems

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

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:30:30PM +0100, Liontos Aristotelis wrote:
> > On 2/18/06, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > > I's unlikely. The "failed" events are created if one or more of the
> > > configured RUN= programs returns non-zero. Usually this is not a problem
> > > and can safely be ignored and seen as udev's "private" data used for
> > > coldplug.
> > > If they should go away, the rule writers must make sure, that the called
> > > tools don't return a failure or maybe should not called at all for these
> > > devices.

> The system is up and running for weeks and its stable.No error
> messages in the logs and udev with dbus and hal work as expected.
> There are still 24 devices under failed but as you said they dont
> cause any problem.(Maybe a sysfs related problem ?)

Yeah, this is not a "problem" at all, and definitely nothing sysfs
related. It is just a script called by udev which returns non-zero.
That could be "fixed" by your distro just for cosmetic reasons, but
you can also safely ignore it, if everything works fine.

Kay


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