On Thursday 28 January 2016 10:28:23 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:38:36PM +0200, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 01:41:24PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 26.01.2016 um 11:08 schrieb Chris Bannister: > > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:16AM +0100, Martin Hanson wrote: > > > >> Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev. > > > >> > > > >> AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of > > > >> udev WHICH DOES NOT WORK WITH YOUR RUNNING KERNEL AND WILL BREAK > > > >> YOUR SYSTEM AT THE NEXT REBOOT by creating the > > > >> /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file. > > > > ... > > > > > You can force the upgrade of the udev by creating the flag file > > > /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade simply by running something like > > > touch /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade > > > The run the udev installation again. No special --force flags are > > > necessary. > > > > > > If you do *not upgrade the kernel afterwards *before* rebooting, it can > > > lead to an unbootable system. > > > > > > I thought the error message from udev was pretty clear, but apparently > > > it isn't? > > > > The way I read it, the part in capitals grabs all the attention and > > breaks the flow of the main sentence. When I first read it (admittedly > > not carefully enough) I thought it meant "Installing this version of > > udev will break the system at next reboot. It will do this by creating > > the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file." :) > > Me too! :) > > > I think it would have been much clearer if it had been: > > > > AT YOUR OWN RISK, you can force the installation of this version of > > udev, by creating the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file. However, this > > version of udev does not work with your running kernel, so, after > > upgrading udev, you MUST also upgrade the kernel before rebooting. > > OTHERWISE YOU WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM AT THE NEXT REBOOT. > > Perfect! (ok, you don't need the comma after the first 'udev')
Not quite. It still does need the sentence: "Please upgrade your kernel before or while upgrading udev." Perhaps even better: "Please upgrade your kernel before upgrading udev." to precede it, since that would obviously be the best way to proceed. Get the kernel on first - after all, there are such things as power cuts. You might install udev, then have e.g. a power cut. Lisi
