From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Uwe Schindler" Subject: RE: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:46:38 +0200 Message-ID: <00cd01cc4306$6269fe00$273dfa00$@thetaphi.de> References: <20110224070203.GA28419@gherkin.frus.com> <20110224075149.GA28779@gherkin.frus.com> <00af01cc42f8$0c691e40$253b5ac0$@thetaphi.de> <20110715151706.GA9506@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110715151706.GA9506@gherkin.frus.com> Content-Language: de Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: 'Bob Tracy' Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, mattst88@gmail.com, mcree@orcon.net.nz Hi Bob, > > (...) > > I tried then to upgrade the package "udev" (was on hold, to prevent me > > from making system unbootable), with the hope that the inotify is > > working with this debian kernel. Unfortunately that's not the case, > > UDEV complains about missing inotify. > > > > So is the patch below already included in some kernel images > > available? Or does somebody have a recent udev version as .deb > packages? > > I still have (and am using) my modified "udev" package > (udev_166-1_alpha.deb: includes the patch you quoted in your original > message). I can send it your way if you wish. In truth, the only thing you > need is "/sbin/udevd" from that package to be operational, and I can send > you just that piece if you prefer. Just let me know. A patch for udev would be the best (do you have it available as a patch), then I can build a custom udev whenever an update occurs. Do you have it somewhere on the web/dropbox whatever? But /sbin/udev is also a good choice for now. Maybe send both as attachment to my private mail. THANKS! >From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614099 it seems that this is fixed in glibc 2.13-1, unfortunately on debian-ports is only 2.11.2-13. So we have to wait until buildds are working :( Maybe I try to compile the libc package (hours of waiting included...) > The underlying problem isn't anything missing in the kernel (at least when > built from the mainline kernel.org source): inotify_init1() is definitely there. > The problem is the userspace call to inotify_init1() in the current Alpha > version of libc6.1 is a stub function. I elected to rebuild the "udev" package > with a valid workaround rather than risk modifying and having to debug "libc" > :-). I was confused about the whole discussion, thanks for making it clear. Uwe