From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:50:25 +0000 Subject: Re: system halt on invalid udev.rule Message-Id: <20040312005024.GB27271@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <200403100929.04074.bobb@absamail.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200403100929.04074.bobb@absamail.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:29:04AM +0200, Bob Barry wrote: > Due to an editing blunder I left a line containing: > NAME="ttyLT0", SYSLINK="modem" > near the top of my udev.rules. At next startup, the system > said that my root device (/dev/hda3) did not exist, and > offered "retry or enter password for shell". I would suggest > that udev be modified to cope more gracefully and informatively > to bad rules. Something like samba's "testparm", but for udev > rules, would be useful too. You mean like "udevtest" which is in the udev release? :) thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel