Package: udev Version: 168-1 Severity: important
udev frequently fails to start at bootup, and I see these messages on the console (I was unable to recover many of these from /var/log and had to write them down): udevd[87]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev' udevd[204]: exec of program 'net.agent' failed udevd[265]: exec of program 'net.agent' failed udevd[280]: exec of program 'net.agent' failed ... Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevdudevd[435]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev' udevd[435]: bind failed: Address already in use error binding udev control socket udevd[435]: error binding udev control socket failed! As long as gdm3 is disabled (otherwise it effectively locks the system because it has no input devices) I can log in and invoke-rc.d udev manually and then it starts up with no issues at all and I can then start gdm3 and operate the system normally. I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is caused by conflicting timestamps. I dual boot with Windows 7 which doesn't seem to have an option to disable DST switching any more, so I let it set the hw clock incorrectly and put UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS in Debian. However, I noticed that timestamps of early parts of the boot sequence in the logs were an hour ahead, so /etc/default/rcS doesn't seem to be taking effect until some point after udev tries to start. But once the system time is corrected udev seems to be able to start. I tried setting the hw clock back to UTC and setting UTC=yes and udev started successfully (although it does still complain about /run and net.agent). I think udev is too vital to the system to allow it to fail for a reason like this. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.38 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-13 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libudev0 168-1 libudev shared library ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-17 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii util-linux 2.17.2-9.1 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages udev recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.1.7-9 Linux PCI Utilities ii usbutils 1:001-1 Linux USB utilities udev suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf changed: blacklist evbug blacklist usbmouse blacklist usbkbd blacklist eepro100 blacklist de4x5 blacklist am53c974 blacklist iTCO_wdt -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/title/upgrade: udev/reboot_needed: udev/sysfs_deprecated_incompatibility: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
