I think I found the problem. Using insserv starts udev twice at boot, once in /etc/rcS.d/S10udev and once in /etc/rc3.d/S03udev. Apparently the second invocation kills the permissions because the device nodes are copied again. When I remove /etc/rc3.d/S03udev it works.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-08-26 18:11 /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/udev start * Starting kernel event manager... [fail] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /dev/null crw------- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-08-26 18:11 /dev/null I think the override for udev is wrong, but I'm not exactly sure. But this bug filed for udev is certainly at the wrong spot. Sorry for the work ... -- [edgy] wrong permission for /lib/udev/devices/null https://launchpad.net/bugs/56129 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs