udev install issues on Debian Sarge, missing device nodes

udev install issues on Debian Sarge, missing device nodes

[Hugh Esco]

Last week I built Debian Sarge on a Toshiba notebook.  Only
when the client was picking up the machine did he mention
his USB printer and camera.  Now I'm debugging an
incomplete installation of udev across a phone
conversation.  

dpkg -l indicates that udev (and hotplug) are both
installed.  But the /dev tree is empty and none of the
devices he needs to run his printer are available.  

I'm thinking I must have missed an error along the way.
Why would udev install w/o building the device nodes?  

And more importantly, what can I do to ask my client to
build these hopefully without him having to bring it back
in to my network for a re-install.  Is there some
configuration script I missed running I can guide him
through? 

All leads appreciated.  

-- 
Hugh Esco 
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Re: udev install issues on Debian Sarge, missing device nodes

[Hugh Esco]

I should have mentioned this as well.  Not only is there
nothing in the /dev directory, but there is nothing
in /etc/udev/ either.  This leads me to believe I have an
incomplete installation.  Again, is there a script which
handles the initial configuration?

-- Hugh 

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:01:29 -0700
Hugh Esco <he@reclaimedcomputers.ca> wrote:

> Last week I built Debian Sarge on a Toshiba notebook.  Only
> when the client was picking up the machine did he mention
> his USB printer and camera.  Now I'm debugging an
> incomplete installation of udev across a phone
> conversation.  
> 
> dpkg -l indicates that udev (and hotplug) are both
> installed.  But the /dev tree is empty and none of the
> devices he needs to run his printer are available.  
> 
> I'm thinking I must have missed an error along the way.
> Why would udev install w/o building the device nodes?  
> 
> And more importantly, what can I do to ask my client to
> build these hopefully without him having to bring it back
> in to my network for a re-install.  Is there some
> configuration script I missed running I can guide him
> through? 
> 
> All leads appreciated.  
> 
> -- 
> Hugh Esco 
> RCK Computer Services 
> http://reclaimedcomputers.ca/
> 
> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
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Re: udev install issues on Debian Sarge, missing device nodes

[Marco d'Itri]

On Jun 28, Hugh Esco <he@reclaimedcomputers.ca> wrote:

> I should have mentioned this as well.  Not only is there
> nothing in the /dev directory, but there is nothing
> in /etc/udev/ either.  This leads me to believe I have an
> incomplete installation.  Again, is there a script which
> handles the initial configuration?
Your system is obviously broken. Please ask for help on a Debian support
forum.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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