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and subject line capifs is obsolete
has caused the Debian Bug report #433992,
regarding capiutils: kernel module capi cannot create device nodes in capifs
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Package: capiutils
Version: 1:3.9.20060704-3
Severity: normal


I played around with mISDN a bit and installed capiutils to have CAPI
support in userspace.

After /etc/init.d/capiutils start I have

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shambala:~> mount | grep capi
capifs on /dev/capi type capifs (rw,mode=0666)
shambala:~#2> LANG=EN ls -ld /dev/capi
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 0 Jul 20 21:17 /dev/capi
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Thus the capi filesystems seems to be mounted on an existing mount
point. (I changed the permissions to allow everything for everyone
while trying to debug this bug.)

Still when I do "modprobe capi" I get the following in syslog:

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Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala kernel: CAPI Subsystem Rev 1.1.2.8
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29274]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/0, 020660, 191, 0) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29275]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/1, 020660, 191, 1) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29276]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/2, 020660, 191, 2) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29277]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/3, 020660, 191, 3) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29278]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/4, 020660, 191, 4) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29279]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/5, 020660, 191, 5) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29280]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/6, 020660, 191, 6) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29281]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/7, 020660, 191, 7) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29282]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/8, 020660, 191, 8) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala kernel: capi20: Rev 1.1.2.7: started up with
major 68 (middleware+capifs)
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29284]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/10, 020660, 191, 10) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29285]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/11, 020660, 191, 11) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29286]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/12, 020660, 191, 12) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29287]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/13, 020660, 191, 13) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29288]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/14, 020660, 191, 14) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29289]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/15, 020660, 191, 15) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29290]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/16, 020660, 191, 16) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29291]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/17, 020660, 191, 17) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29292]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/18, 020660, 191, 18) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29293]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/19, 020660, 191, 19) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29294]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/20, 020660, 191, 20) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29295]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/21, 020660, 191, 21) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29283]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/9, 020660, 191, 9) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29296]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/22, 020660, 191, 22) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29297]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/23, 020660, 191, 23) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29298]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/24, 020660, 191, 24) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29300]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/26, 020660, 191, 26) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29301]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/27, 020660, 191, 27) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29302]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/28, 020660, 191, 28) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29304]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/30, 020660, 191, 30) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29305]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/31, 020660, 191, 31) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29303]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/29, 020660, 191, 29) failed: Operation not permitted
Jul 20 22:03:57 shambala udevd-event[29299]: udev_node_mknod:
mknod(/dev/capi/25, 020660, 191, 25) failed: Operation not permitted
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Well and it seems that udevd-event prints a correct error message:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
shambala:~#1> LANG=EN touch /dev/capi/somefile
touch: cannot touch `/dev/capi/somefile': Permission denied
---------------------------------------------------------------------

I do not quite get this. Am I missing something? Or is there a bug.

I am using a self built kernel (see below). I can try with standard
debian kernel if desired.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.6-tp42-cfs-v19-sws2-2.2.10
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages capiutils depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcapi20-3             1:3.9.20060704-3 libraries for CAPI support
ii  lsb-base                3.1-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

capiutils recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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Hi,

thank you for reporting this issue.  capifs is now obsolete.  My
apologies this ticket was not dealt with earlier.

Regards

Rolf


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