Hello, Udev has been on the system before this upgrade. Following if the output with set -x. Also following is my attempt to start/stop udev.
# apt-get install udev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done udev is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up udev (0.100-2.2) ... + case "$1" in + '[' -z 0.100-1 ']' + '[' -e /etc/udev/run-write_net_rules ']' + chrooted + '[' -r /proc/1/root ']' + return 1 + '[' -e /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade ']' + can_start_udevd + supported_kernel + case "$(uname -r)" in ++ uname -r + return 0 + '[' '!' -d /sys/class/ ']' + '[' '!' -e /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug ']' + grep -q '[[:space:]]tmpfs$' /proc/filesystems + '[' -e /etc/udev/disabled ']' + return 0 + restart_udevd + start-stop-daemon --stop --name udevd --oknodo --quiet --retry 5 dpkg: error processing udev (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal: hal depends on udev (>= 0.065); however: Package udev is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools: initramfs-tools depends on udev (>= 0.086-1); however: Package udev is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: udev hal initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # ps ax|grep udev 2174 ? Z<s 0:00 [udevd] <defunct> 15265 pts/7 S+ 0:00 grep udev # /etc/init.d/udev udev udev-mtab # /etc/init.d/udev restart Stopping the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd failed! Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. -- Bhaskar S. Manda > -----Original Message----- > From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 8:56 AM > To: Bhaskar Manda; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#396211: udev not installable > > On Oct 30, Bhaskar Manda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dpkg: error processing udev (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > This report is useless unless you can also determine why > postinst is failing. > Was udev installed on your system or this is the first time > you install it? > Try adding "set -x" at the top of /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst. > > -- > ciao, > Marco >
