Comment 8 for bug 12581

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:20:38 +0100
From: <email address hidden> (Marco d'Itri)
To: "Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#293817: udev: upgrade to 0.051-1 renders the system unbootable

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On Feb 06, "Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I've redone the test, it is always the same. It begin to boot and the =20
> stops displaying anything while there is still some activity. I didnt =20
> manage to reach my box via the network: whine I can ping it, ssh is not =
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> working.
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> The latest displayed message are:
This is not helping. Please reboot the system with init=3D/bin/bash,
manually run:

/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs start
/etc/init.d/udev start

and check what really happens.

> #BUS=3D"usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=3D"056a", SYSFS{idProduct}=3D"0011", NAME=
=3D"%k", =20
> SYMLINK=3D"input/tablet"
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> But the way, if I tried to enable this line, it creates first the right =
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> symlink but it is overwritten later with every device in /dev/inout/ to =
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> finally stay with the latest found.
I find hard to believe that such a bug is exposed only on your system.

> To be able to boot, I've started the system on a live CD and the =20
> download the previous debian package fro udev (0.050-6) from =20
If udev breaks, you can disable it by disabling the init script.

Or else, add to the top of the init script:

if [ "$DISABLE_UDEV" =3D "yes" ]; then
  echo "udev disabled by a kernel parameter
  exit 0
fi

and you will be able to disable it by adding DISABLE_UDEV=3Dyes to the
kernel command line.

--=20
ciao,
Marco

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