Adam Hardy wrote:
I'm using testing and debian has got itself in a bad way now.
I upgraded several packages 3 days ago and have been trying to sort it
out since - I think the offending packages may be udev or libusb.
I also added a line for usbfs /proc/bus/usb to my fstab.
You probably shouldn't have done that. Usbfs is mounted automatically by
something else in the system; get it out of fstab.
I subsequently lost my sound driver, my ability to open shell consoles
in X, my CPU thermometer and various bits of gnome. My /dev/null is set
to the wrong permissions on boot too.
I've come to dislike udev enough to disable it on my Sarge system by
removing execute permissions from udev and udev-mtab in /etc/init.d/. I
first booted into kernel 2.4.27 so that udev wouldn't be loaded (because
you can't disable udev while you're using udev).
I don't need udev because all of the device nodes I need are in place on
the filesystem.
I read some other people were having issues with udev here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg00631.html
[...]
Udev gave me problems even on Sarge. Take note that the version number
for udev is less than 1.0, and this is the software that controls all of
your access to your devices.
IMO, Etch (testing) is not your problem--udev is.
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