Package: udev Version: 0.056-2 Severity: important several months ago, i tried udev, but had many problems and uninstalled it... when i recently tried it again, the permissions for /dev were totally screwed up and numerous programs (namely screen and startx) failed to run at all for a normal user.
i believe it was caused by the postinst script's create_rules_symlink
function, in the for loop:
# stop if one of the links already exists
for file in devfs.rules compat.rules compat-full.rules cd-aliases.rules \
udev.rules 020_permissions.rules; do
[ ! -e $file ] || return 0
done
ln -s ../permissions.rules 020_permissions.rules
(or should that be: "[ -e $file ] || return 0", according to the comment?)
because it was previously installed with only udev.rules and
cd-aliases.rules, several of the files were missing, and thus the
permissions.rules symlink was not created.
not installing the permissions.rules symlink proved disasterous- it
seems like more thorough checking of what symlinks are installed would
be wise, though i don't know precisely what might be a better way to
handle it.
after "apt-get --purge remove udev" and "apt-get install udev"
everything seems to be working fine- the permissions.rules symlink got
created properly, but i worry about future upgrades...
live well,
vagrant
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-05-16 11:18 020_permissions.rules ->
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-05-16 11:18 cd-aliases.rules ->
../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-05-16 11:18 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
-- /sys/:
/sys/block/fd0/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda3/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda4/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda5/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda6/dev
/sys/block/loop0/dev
/sys/block/loop1/dev
/sys/block/loop2/dev
/sys/block/loop3/dev
/sys/block/loop4/dev
/sys/block/loop5/dev
/sys/block/loop6/dev
/sys/block/loop7/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/class/input/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/input/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/ts0/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/misc/tun/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
-- Kernel configuration:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=es_US, LC_CTYPE=es_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-22 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii makedev 2.3.1-77 creates device files in /dev
ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor
-- no debconf information
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