Package: udev Version: 0.114-2 Severity: normal
Having set udev_root in /etc/udev/udev.conf, I see via strace and logs that udevd is still touching /dev: Dec 22 04:47:29 betty udevd-event[1500]: update_link: 'disk/by-label/CANON_DC' with target 'hde1' has the highest priority 0, create it Dec 22 04:47:29 betty udevd-event[1500]: node_symlink: creating symlink '/dev/disk/by-label/CANON_DC' to '../../hde1' etc. And indeed, that's where it gets made: betty:/dev/disk% ll /dev/disk/by-label/CANON_DC lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 22 04:47 /dev/disk/by-label/CANON_DC -> ../../hde1 betty:/dev/disk% Can you please get it to move to where udev_root is set to? And note that udevinfo at least is trying to PARSE udev.conf, which is a SHELL file! It can't do that. Also, init.d/udev was full of attempts to touch /dev, instead of confining itself to $udev_root. Please let me know where to patch the code to stop the use of /dev when udev_root is specified, as a matter of urgency. It's not clear to me! Regards Peter -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Oct 7 2006 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 7 2006 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 12 23:55 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 7 2006 025_logitechmouse.rules -> ../logitechmouse.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 9 2006 030_ifplugd.rules -> ../ifplugd.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 12 2006 090_enbd.rules -> ../enbd.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 7 2006 85-pcmcia.rules -> ../pcmcia.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Oct 9 10:31 enbd.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86 Aug 16 21:52 nvram.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 8 2006 thinkpad.rules -> ../thinkpad.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 7 2006 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 7 2006 z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 7 2006 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 580 Oct 9 2006 z25_persistent-net.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 7 2006 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> ../persistent-net-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 7 2006 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 7 2006 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 7 2006 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2589 Jun 3 2007 z60_libpisock9.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5716 Jun 8 2007 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 7 2006 z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules -> ../cd-aliases-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 22 23:08 z99_hal.rules -> ../hal.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda10/dev /sys/block/hda/hda11/dev /sys/block/hda/hda12/dev /sys/block/hda/hda13/dev /sys/block/hda/hda14/dev /sys/block/hda/hda15/dev /sys/block/hda/hda16/dev /sys/block/hda/hda17/dev /sys/block/hda/hda18/dev /sys/block/hda/hda19/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda20/dev /sys/block/hda/hda21/dev /sys/block/hda/hda22/dev /sys/block/hda/hda23/dev /sys/block/hda/hda24/dev /sys/block/hda/hda25/dev /sys/block/hda/hda3/dev /sys/block/hda/hda4/dev /sys/block/hda/hda5/dev /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev /sys/block/hda/hda7/dev /sys/block/hda/hda8/dev /sys/block/hda/hda9/dev /sys/block/hde/dev /sys/block/hde/hde1/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev /sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/input2/ts0/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/hpet/dev /sys/class/misc/hw_random/dev /sys/class/misc/nvram/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip udev recommends no packages. -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/reboot_needed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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