On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:26:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have been pursuing the thought that udevd is trying to write to > /dev/.udev after its been moved to /run/udev, however I haven't > found a good testing regime. I have been trying to figure out how > /dev/.udev gets created (so it can be moved to /run/udev) but so far > failed. The only possible explanation I could find was in > /sbin/MAKEDEV, but I don't have that file on my system.
This happens in the initramfs. If /run doesn't exist, /dev/.udev is used as a fallback. This should also occur if you don't use an initramfs and /run is not available when udev starts. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
