From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JAa0B-0002So-PL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:01:31 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAa0A-0002SG-6E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:01:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JAa08-0002Rc-PR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:01:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JAa08-0002RW-Bq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:01:28 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAa08-0000UH-2W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:01:28 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAZxl-0007rx-PW; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:59:04 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JAZtr-00020f-FO; Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:54:59 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:54:59 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: "Pascal A. Dupuis" Message-ID: <20080103235459.GA7520@thorin> References: <20080103221423.GA6243@example.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080103221423.GA6243@example.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: grub-pc: installation failure under linux + udev X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:01:30 -0000 On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:14:23PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote: > Hello, > > this is a copy of debian bug 450709 > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450709) at > debian maintainer's (Robert Millan ) request: Thanks Pascal. > But ... util/biosdisk.c has another issue with detecting udev. The > routine has_devfs searchs for /dev/.devfsd, which cames from deprecated > devfs. Enclosed is a synthetic patch, I compiled and ran it fine on my > machine. Could you check ? The off-by-5 bug is already fixed in CVS. As for the devfs part, I think I figured out what you're doing. You setup udev to emulate devfs-style devices, right? I think the right fix for this is not to check for /dev/.udev, but rather just probe for devfs-style devices unconditionally. As it happens there are other ways in which one could have this layout, including other /dev implementations such as userdevfs. What does everyone else think? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)