Re: usb stick is not found under /udev

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 08:14:11PM +0100, Juergen Rose wrote:
> 
> I really don't have a /etc/hotplug/block.agent or
> /etc/hotplug/scsi_device.agent. Should I have?

No, that has nothing to do with udev.

> Line 27 of /etc/udev/udev.rules is:
> 
> BUS="usb", PLACE="2.4", NAME="mouse2"
> 
> Now I can mount and access my usb stick with 
> 
> mount /udev/mouse2 /mnt/hd ,

Heh.  I suggest getting rid of a rule that does not work, like this one
:)

> that's nice. This is not, what I expect my hardware recognition. If I
> comment line 27 of /etc/udev/udev.rules and restart udev I find finally
> the /udev/stick* entries. But, is this commenting of line 27, the best
> way to do it?

Um, why would you want that rule?  It's incorrect for your system it
seems.

> There is still something interesting. If I try to redirct the output of
> /etc/init.d/udev start to a file by:
> 
> /etc/init.d/udev start 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/hotplug/hotplug_debug.log
> 
> using udev, compiled with 'make DEBUG=true', it needs very long time or
> it even not finishes. Without redirection there is no problem.

With DEBUG=true, and adding all devices in your system, udev takes a
long time.  There's a lot of messages getting spit out to the system
log.  Go away and it will eventually finish...

thanks,

greg k-h


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