From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:49:33 +0000 Subject: Re: udev problems Message-Id: <20050418204933.GA19415@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <200403071315.02925.michal@cihar.com> In-Reply-To: <200403071315.02925.michal@cihar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 _______________________________________________ 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