Bug#752742: udev: fails to boot if CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is disabled

2014-06-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 15:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 26.06.2014 08:43, schrieb Arto Jantunen: > > Package: udev > > Version: 204-12 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > > > The udev initramfs script is executed with set -e, and attempts to clear > > out the contents of /sys/kernel/ueve

Bug#752742: udev: fails to boot if CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is disabled

2014-06-26 Thread Arto Jantunen
Michael Biebl writes: >> Additionally udev.init and udev.postinst have checks for the existence >> of that file which would stop udev from being started under sysvinit if >> that compatibility option is not set. I'm not entirely sure what should >> be done about them. > > Seems reasonable to drop

Bug#752742: udev: fails to boot if CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is disabled

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.06.2014 15:11, schrieb Marco d'Itri: > On Jun 26, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Marco, at least I don't see a good reason to keep them. Do you agree? > Yes, I think that nowadays we can just assume that the kernel will have > hotplug support. > We just need to double check that removing this w

Bug#752742: udev: fails to boot if CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is disabled

2014-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Michael Biebl wrote: > Marco, at least I don't see a good reason to keep them. Do you agree? Yes, I think that nowadays we can just assume that the kernel will have hotplug support. We just need to double check that removing this will not cause udevd to be started in containers, chro

Bug#752742: udev: fails to boot if CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is disabled

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.06.2014 08:43, schrieb Arto Jantunen: > Package: udev > Version: 204-12 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > The udev initramfs script is executed with set -e, and attempts to clear > out the contents of /sys/kernel/uevent_helper at boot. If > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is not set this file doesn'

Bug#752742: udev: fails to boot if CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is disabled

2014-06-25 Thread Arto Jantunen
Package: udev Version: 204-12 Severity: normal Tags: patch The udev initramfs script is executed with set -e, and attempts to clear out the contents of /sys/kernel/uevent_helper at boot. If CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER is not set this file doesn't exist, setting it fails and the boot stops. The script sho