Package: udev Version: 0.097-1 Severity: important
After upgrading udev to 0.97-1, it fails to start properly. At boot time I see a timeout error from udev immediately after the root filesystem gets mounted, then my other filesystems (which are all s/w RAID) fail to mount due to missing device nodes, and the system eventually drops me to a maintenance shell. I can start udev successfully from the command line - however this still doesn't seem to create my /dev/md* device nodes. I have a custom compiled kernel (2.6.15.1) with RAID support built in, and partitions marked as RAID autostart, so no md module is being loaded. Copying the device nodes from /dev/.static/dev to /dev renders the partitions mountable, after which the system will come up normally. I haven't as yet managed to track down what exactly is causing this, as I can't reliably reproduce the timeout from the command line, but the problem appeared after an apt-get upgrade that brought in udev 0.97-1. Mike -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-08-07 06:26 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-10-27 21:11 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2005-11-20 02:09 025_libsane-extras.rules -> ../libsane-extras.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-08-19 19:17 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-12-15 23:51 035_kino.rules -> ../kino.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-08-07 06:26 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-03-28 20:01 z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-08-15 13:34 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 621 2006-08-20 12:39 z25_persistent-cd.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332 2006-04-23 09:44 z25_persistent-net.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-04-22 12:54 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> ../persistent-net-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-08-07 06:26 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-10-27 21:47 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-08-11 00:56 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-09-29 02:45 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-08-19 19:16 z60_mdadm.rules -> ../mdadm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-05-07 12:29 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules -> ../xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2006-08-19 19:06 z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules -> ../cd-aliases-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-08-19 19:06 z99_hal.rules -> ../hal.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/hdd/dev /sys/block/loop0/dev /sys/block/loop1/dev /sys/block/loop2/dev /sys/block/loop3/dev /sys/block/loop4/dev /sys/block/loop5/dev /sys/block/loop6/dev /sys/block/loop7/dev /sys/block/md0/dev /sys/block/md1/dev /sys/block/md2/dev /sys/block/md3/dev /sys/block/md4/dev /sys/block/md5/dev /sys/block/md6/dev /sys/block/md7/dev /sys/block/sda/dev /sys/block/sda/sda10/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev /sys/block/sda/sda2/dev /sys/block/sda/sda3/dev /sys/block/sda/sda5/dev /sys/block/sda/sda6/dev /sys/block/sda/sda7/dev /sys/block/sda/sda8/dev /sys/block/sda/sda9/dev /sys/block/sdb/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb10/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb2/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb3/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb5/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb6/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb7/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb8/dev /sys/block/sdb/sdb9/dev /sys/block/sdc/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc10/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc1/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc2/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc3/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc5/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc6/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc7/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc8/dev /sys/block/sdc/sdc9/dev /sys/block/sdd/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd10/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd1/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd2/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd3/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd5/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd6/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd7/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd8/dev /sys/block/sdd/sdd9/dev /sys/block/sde/dev /sys/block/sde/sde1/dev /sys/block/sdf/dev /sys/block/sdg/dev /sys/block/sdh/dev /sys/block/sdh/sdh1/dev /sys/class/drm/card0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg2/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg3/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg4/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg5/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg6/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg7/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg8/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg9/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0a/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0l/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0m/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/st0a/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/st0/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/st0l/dev /sys/class/scsi_tape/st0m/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/dmmidi/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/midiC0D0/dev /sys/class/sound/midi/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3p/dev /sys/class/sound/seq/dev /sys/class/sound/sequencer2/dev /sys/class/sound/sequencer/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.3/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.4/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-15 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30.26-2 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.097-1 libvolume_id 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