Package: udev Version: 0.091-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
When I tried to upgrade to udev 0.092-1, my system would no longer boot. My initramfs was regenerated with the same configuration and kernel that I have been using successfully for some time. On boot, the kernel recognized my hard disks/partitions as usual and then printed a message: Can't find /dev/sda3 (or something to that effect) Waiting for root file system Then, I got a busybox root prompt. I have a Thinkpad T43 with a SATA/PATA controller; my hard drive appears as a SCSI device. My /etc/mkinitramfs/modules file contains: libata atapi_enabled=1 ata_piix scsi_mod sd_mod Downgrading to udev 0.091-2 fixed the problem. I noticed the changelog says: * Removed support for kernels older than 2.6.15: udevsynthesize has been replaced by udevtrigger. So perhaps this is the problem (I haven't tested a newer kernel). It took a while to figure out which package was causing the problems (I was playing with initramfs stuff for a while). Perhaps the new udev package should refuse to install with older kernels, since it has the potential to render systems unbootable. Thanks. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-11-15 07:50 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-11-15 07:52 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-04-24 09:58 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-05-03 15:57 050_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-01-30 12:06 85-pcmcia.rules -> ../pcmcia.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-11-15 07:50 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-11-15 07:50 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-03-29 17:28 z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-11-15 07:50 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 446 2006-05-02 01:00 z25_persistent-net.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-04-21 14:57 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> ../persistent-net-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-11-15 07:50 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-11-15 07:50 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-11-15 07:48 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-11-15 07:02 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-05-15 11:45 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules -> ../xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-11-15 07:50 z70_hotplugd.rules -> ../hotplugd.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/ram0/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/ram1/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/block/sr0/dev /sys/class/input/event0/dev /sys/class/input/event1/dev /sys/class/input/event2/dev /sys/class/input/event3/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/input/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/mouse1/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/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/tpm0/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev /sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev /sys/class/sound/adsp/dev /sys/class/sound/audio1/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC1/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp1/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer1/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D4p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0p/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 /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev -- Kernel configuration: isapnp_init not present. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (95, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-custom.4 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-14.1 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.092-1 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii makedev 2.3.1-81 creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor udev recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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