Re: /sbin/udev block and /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hd[a-h][1-10]/media: No such file or directory

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

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:23:12PM -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Bob Barry wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:24, Juergen Rose wrote:
> > > during the initilization of udev (/etc/init.d/udev start) I get a lot
> > > messages like "/bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda1/media: No such file or
> > > directory".
> >
> > I see the same thing, and I've been watching for an answer.
> >
> > I use the rule for cdrom from the tarball /etc/udev/udev.rules:
> > BUS="ide", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom"
> >
> > Links exist in /proc/ide to hda, hdc and hdd.  After startup, the cat works:
> > 	> /bin/cat /proc/ide/hd[acd]/media
> > 	disk
> > 	cdrom
> > 	cdrom
> >
> > Is /proc/ide being used before it is built?
> 
> I'm also seeing it, even running it after the system boots.
> 
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda1/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda10/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda11/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda12/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda2/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda5/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda6/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda7/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda8/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda9/media: No such file or directory
> /bin/cat: /proc/ide/hda3/media: No such file or directory
> 
> Is it because I also have devfs enabled ?

No it's cause you try to read 'media' on an partition.
Just ignore it or use:

  BUS="ide", KERNEL="*[!0-9]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom"

It will ignore all kernel names ending with a digit.

hope that works for you,
Kay


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