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From: Derrick Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: My system became unusable
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Package: udev
Version: 0.053-1
Tags: patch
Due to various reasons, kernels 2.6.7 through 2.6.10 don't work on my
system and I continue to use version 2.6.6. Some time ago I upgraded
the udev package, and just this weekend rebooted for the first time
since then. The system would no longer boot because udev declined to
start and my /dev was missing many device nodes.
To cut the story short, I managed to get my system running again and I
propose the attached patches to enable others in a similar situation
an easy solution. The patches add a parameter to udev.conf to tell
the init script to skip the kernel version check.
In addition, please add a NEWS file telling administrators that the
init script will not start if the kernel is older than 2.6.8. This
will allow the administrator to abort the upgrade before their system
becomes unusable.
-D
PS. I actually have 0.050-6 installed right now, but the patches are
against the 0.053-1 source package.
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--- rules.orig 2005-02-21 22:18:47.000000000 -0500
+++ rules 2005-02-21 22:22:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@
$B/extras/cdsymlinks.conf $D/etc/udev/
printf "# maximum size of the /dev tmpfs\ntmpfs_size=\"5M\"\n\n" \
>> $D/etc/udev/udev.conf
+ printf "# Uncomment this to force udev to consider the kernel as
supported.\n# See bug #284782 for information on the
consequences.\n#assume_kernel_supported=\"true\"\n\n" \
+ >> $D/etc/udev/udev.conf
sed -e 's/^#\([^ ]\)/\1/' < extra/compat.rules > \
$D/etc/udev/compat-full.rules
dh_link --all \
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--- udev.init.orig 2005-02-21 22:05:50.000000000 -0500
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@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@
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# this function is duplicated in preinst, postinst and d-i
supported_kernel() {
+ # Allow an administrator to bypass the kernel version check and accept
+ # the consequences.
+ # See #284782 (kernel 2.6.7 doesn't set SYSFS{removable} for cdrom/cdrw)
+ if [ "$assume_kernel_supported" =3D "true" ] ; then return 0 ;
+
case "$(uname -r)" in
2.[012345].*|2.6.[0-7]|2.6.[0-7][!0-9]*) return 1 ;;
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:32:04 +0100
To: Derrick Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Subject: Re: Bug#296379: My system became unusable
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri)
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On Feb 22, Derrick Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To cut the story short, I managed to get my system running again and I
> propose the attached patches to enable others in a similar situation
> an easy solution. The patches add a parameter to udev.conf to tell
> the init script to skip the kernel version check.
No, this is a silly hack. If your system is so weird that you cannot use
a recent kernel and you really know what you are doing then you can
hand-edit the init script as well.
> In addition, please add a NEWS file telling administrators that the
> init script will not start if the kernel is older than 2.6.8. This
> will allow the administrator to abort the upgrade before their system
> becomes unusable.
Recent versions of udev refuse the upgrade too.
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ciao,
Marco
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