On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:36:50AM +0100, akhiezer wrote: > > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:02:11 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Sirsendu Roy <xai...@yahoo.com> > > To: BLFS Support List <blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org> > > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Kde cannot start !!!!! solved !!!!! > > > > Hi akhzier, > > Thanks for the reply. At last I have my KDE login again. > > The problem was: > > 1. Now I boot when when udev starts and populates /dev node, the /dev/null > > cannot get the permission that requires, i.e. 666, no idea suddenlz why it > > happens !!!!! > > 2. suddenly /usr/X11/bin/Xorg losts its sticky bit. I reverted the change. > > > > Now in my ~/bashrc file I needed to add : > > sudo chmod 666 /dev/null. > > > It's probably prudent to fix that /dev/null issue system-wide, rather than > just > via one of your login environments. You _could_ put the chmod command into a > system startup file under /etc/rc* : but in your case it's probably less > hacky > if you try to correct it via udev. > > I don't use udev (& instead just use static device files), so the following > may > be better addressed by someone on-list who does use it. > > For the command: > grep -r null /etc/udev /lib/udev/[a-ce-z]* > , do you get any lines like: > > /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:KERNEL=="null|zero|full|random|urandom", > MODE="0666" > or: > /etc/udev/rules.d/40-fix-permissions-rules:SUBSYSTEM=="mem", > KERNEL=="null|zero|full|random|urandom", MODE="0666" > ? If not, then you might want to create something like > '/etc/udev/rules.d/40-fix-permissions-rules' ( 0644 root root ) with the > contents > as shown in the above example grep output.
On a (eudev) 7.4 I see that /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules line : if Roy doesn't have it then I suggest he needs to think about what he has been doing, to work out why it got trashed. iĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
