Package: udev Version: 146-3 Severity: important Running dist-upgrade on my sid box today, I ended up with an unbootable system because udev apparently freaks out if inotify support is not enabled.
AFAIU, inotify is only used to detect updates to the config files, clearly not a critical feature. What's more, previous versions of udev worked just fine without inotify support, so the new behaviour is a regression. Finally, the package should check *BEFORE INSTALLING* whether mandatory features are present on the system, instead of installing and failing later on, leaving the user with an unbootable system. I had to downgrade to lenny's udev to get my system back to life. The error message is: Setting up udev (146-3) ... udevd[518]: inotify_init failed: Function not implemented error initializing inotify udevd[518]: error initializing inotify Cannot start udevd. (rc=4) dpkg: error processing udev (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4 -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3801 Aug 26 12:31 50-udev.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1601 Aug 26 12:31 60-persistent-input.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1488 Aug 26 12:31 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4873 Aug 26 12:31 60-persistent-storage.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 Aug 26 12:31 60-persistent-v4l.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 685 Oct 4 00:02 70-persistent-net.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452 Aug 26 12:31 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4427 Aug 26 12:31 75-persistent-net-generator.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2507 Aug 26 12:31 80-drivers.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4559 Aug 26 12:31 91-permissions.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593 Aug 26 12:31 95-late.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 26 2009 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules -- /sys/: /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/sda/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev /sys/block/sda/sda2/dev /sys/block/sda/sda3/dev /sys/block/sda/sda4/dev /sys/block/sdb/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/perf/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev -- Kernel configuration: isapnp_init not present. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: hppa (parisc64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.19 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
