From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932354AbWGaAIZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:08:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932481AbWGaAIZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:08:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:29343 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932354AbWGaAIY (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:08:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:03:59 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Laurent Riffard Cc: ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com, Andrew Morton , andrew.j.wade@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 Message-ID: <20060731000359.GB23220@kroah.com> References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <20060727125655.f5f443ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20060727201255.GA9515@suse.de> <200607281033.06111.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> <44CCBBC7.3070801@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44CCBBC7.3070801@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 04:01:43PM +0200, Laurent Riffard wrote: > In this situation, udev (version 096 here) is unable to create these > device files (/dev/full, /dev/kmem, /dev/kmsg, etc.). /dev/null does > exist (with wrong permissions) because it has been created by the > initrd script. Something's really broken with that version of udev then, because the 094 version I have running here works just fine with these symlinks. > In order to get back the device files, I have to run the following > command: > # for f in /sys/class/mem/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $f; done Ah, ok, it sounds like it's not a bug in udev itself, but rather a bug in the way your distro does it's initialization of udev, at boot. I suggest you file a bug with them, as they are known for doing this a bit differently than any other distro (and different from how the udev developers recommend), so they can fix it. It's probably just a shell script issue. thanks, greg k-h