Package: udev
Version: 0.062-3
Severity: important

After an apt-get upgrade, a new version of udev was installed. This
version refuses to start without a kernel version of 2.6.12 or greater.
I received no warning that this would happen, and substantial
functionality on my system no longer works. In one sense this is
trivial, as a kernel upgrade will fix it, but surely the package should
warn users that this will happen, or refuse to install unless the
running kernel is 2.6.12 or greater? Unwary users may see a lot break if
their system is depedent on udev and it gets upgraded while the system's
current kernel predates 2.6.12.

Mike.


-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 2005-04-24 18:58 020_permissions.rules -> 
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 2005-07-02 19:22 050_hal-plugdev.rules -> 
../hal.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 2005-03-16 00:59 cd-aliases.rules -> 
../cd-aliases.rules
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1049 2005-03-31 01:26 local.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   13 2005-03-16 00:59 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 2005-07-04 00:16 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   17 2005-07-04 00:16 z70_hotplugd.rules -> 
../hotplugd.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/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/sdf/dev
/sys/block/sdg/dev
/sys/block/sdh/dev
/sys/block/sdh/sdh1/dev
/sys/class/drm/card0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/input/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/netlink/arpd/dev
/sys/class/netlink/dnrtmsg/dev
/sys/class/netlink/fwmonitor/dev
/sys/class/netlink/ip6_fw/dev
/sys/class/netlink/nflog/dev
/sys/class/netlink/route6/dev
/sys/class/netlink/route/dev
/sys/class/netlink/skip/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap0/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap10/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap11/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap12/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap13/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap14/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap15/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap1/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap2/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap3/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap4/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap5/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap6/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap7/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap8/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tap9/dev
/sys/class/netlink/tcpdiag/dev
/sys/class/netlink/usersock/dev
/sys/class/netlink/xfrm/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

-- Kernel configuration:
 isapnp_init not present.


-- 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 2.6.11.3
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  hotplug                  0.0.20040329-22 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  initscripts              2.86.ds1-1      Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libselinux1              1.24-1          SELinux shared libraries
ii  makedev                  2.3.1-78        creates device files in /dev
ii  sed                      4.1.4-2         The GNU sed stream editor

udev recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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