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    been replaced by udevtrigger.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


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