Re: SuSE 10.0 udev stuck with bogus name / rule entry

[Ken Ryan <newsryan42@leesburg-geeks.org>]

Greg KH wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:37:44PM -0400, Ken Ryan wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello.
>>
>>I'm trying to recover from a failed attempt at creating a udev rule.
>>
>>I'm running SuSE 10.0, pretty well up to date via YOU.
>>    
>>
>
>Any chance of trying out 10.1 now?  This list isn't for distro specific
>support, sorry, try one of the opensuse mailing lists (but they will
>probably just recommend upgrading to 10.1...)
>
>good luck,
>
>greg k-h
>  
>
I am planning on upgrading to 10.1 whenever I get my shipment from 
Novell (I took
Novell up on their free shipping offer, now the box has been on 
backorder for a couple
weeks.  My net connection is only a measly 128kb so the idea of 
downloading iso
images doesn't appeal to me).  I have to admit I've become a bit leery 
about upgrading
because of all the folks griping on the suse lists about how buggy 10.1 is.

I know the list isn't for distro-specific stuff; I was hoping a 
udev/hotplug guru would be
able to help me understand what the heck happened, and where ttyS0 is 
getting remembered.
As I continue to dig into this I'm getting the impression that udev and 
hotplug are necessarily
very distro-specific so I can understand if you can't really help.  I 
did post to a couple suse
lists, I just thought I might get lucky.

I did find that if I put lines at the end of the start case in boot.udev 
which mimic the
force-reload activity plus a small delay the system then comes up fine.  
I'm now trying
to figure out how to get the corrected entries remembered by suse's boot 
process.  With
the hack in place I boot almost normally, I get xdm and everything since 
/dev is properly
populated.  If I take the hack back out it reverts to the broken state.  
Since I can't figure out
what got ttyS0 stuck in there I don't know how to overwrite it.

Now that I am able to boot after a fashion, though, I'm going to pull 
out my last backup and
see if I can find the bogus rule...perhaps you or someone else on the 
list can give me a clue
as to what my erroneous rule might have done.

I miss my Slackware installation.  All this idiot-resistant gui stuff is 
great until something
breaks, then it seems to be impossible to figure out.

       ken




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