udevinfo messages

["Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>]

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;
}

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

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 :-(

Dieter.
-- 
Dieter Stüken, con terra GmbH, Münster
     stueken@conterra.de
     http://www.conterra.de/
     (0)251-7474-501


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