Re: udev problems

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:13:38PM -0600, clemens@dwf.com wrote:
> is.
> 
> If it is legal, then I have a complaint...
> 
> This has happened to me twice now (three times if you count the twice
> yesterday while I was trying to dig my way out).
> 
> It would seem, that on a reboot (on the way down, on the way up, Im not
> sure) that udev proceeds to remove all files that were active at the
> time the system went down.  I will assume that it created all of these
> files, so it thinks that it can remove them.

No, odds are /dev is mounted on a ram or tmpfs filesystem, which means
the whole thing was thrown away when the machine was rebooted.  udev did
not remove anything on it's own.

> Hey what ever happened to the MKNOD (?) script that used to be in
> UNIX systems?  I dont see it in Fedora2.  That would have helped in
> the repair.

Try asking the Fedora people, that's up to them, and how they package
udev.

> I had this same problem a couple of months ago, and just gave up
> and reinstalled the OS.  I hate to do that as it may only take 30-45m
> to do the reinstall, but it takes another week to get everything
> configured back the way it was...

Sounds like you need to learn about backing stuff up :)

> Needless to say, Im not going to use
> 
>         udev_root="/dev/"
>         udev_db="/dev/.udev.tdb
> 
> again, anthough it sure makes life a lot simpler.
> 
> And, Im going to have to go and remove it from some machines at the
> lab, before disaster strikes there too.

Might I suggest a newer distro than Fedora2?  Like one that actually
implementes udev properly?

thanks,

greg k-h


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