Package: udev Version: 0.088-2 Severity: normal On the unplug of a device, such as a USB-based MP3 player, the "remove" event does not load the ENV variables until just before the RUN command is executed. This means that any match against an ENV variable -- such as ID_VENDOR or ID_SERIAL -- will fail. This makes it essentially impossible to match against device-specific events. (The goal of a match would be to umount the MP3 player after it's been unplugged.)
Furthermore, the Debian-specific command stored in the ENV variable REMOVE_CMD never executes. This is because the test ENV{REMOVE_CMD} != "" will fail in persistent.rules -- the ENV variable is never present. Andrey Borzenkov provided a straightforward patch that provides the ENV variables at the correct time, as documented on on the udev mailing list (linux-hotplug-devel, hosted at sourceforge.net, Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). He will provide a "cleaned-up" version of this patch to udev; please accept this patch. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 27 08:02 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 17 07:31 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 19 21:59 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 4 11:09 025_logitechmouse.rules -> ../logitechmouse.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 12 07:14 050_linux-wlan-ng.rules -> ../linux-wlan-ng.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 27 08:02 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 27 08:02 compat-full.rules -> ../compat-full.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 27 08:02 devfs.rules -> ../devfs.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 30 13:56 z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 27 08:02 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 29 12:20 z25_local.rules -> ../local.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 27 08:02 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 27 08:02 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 4 2005 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Sep 20 2005 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 27 08:02 z70_hotplugd.rules -> ../hotplugd.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda3/dev /sys/block/hdc/dev /sys/block/hdd/dev /sys/block/md1/dev /sys/block/md2/dev /sys/block/md3/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/block/sda/dev /sys/block/sda/sda1/dev /sys/block/sda/sda2/dev /sys/block/sda/sda3/dev /sys/block/sda/sda4/dev /sys/class/drm/card0/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/ts0/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/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/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/sound/adsp/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb/lp0/dev /sys/class/usb/lp1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.3/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-14 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.0-16 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip ii makedev 2.3.1-80 creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.4-5 The GNU sed stream editor udev recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]