Bug#293817: udev: upgrade to 0.051-1 renders the system unbootable

[Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)]

Le 06.02.2005 11:20:38, Marco d'Itri a �crit�:
On Feb 06, "Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I've redone the test, it is always the same. It begin to boot and the

stops displaying anything while there is still some activity. I didnt

manage to reach my box via the network: whine I can ping it, ssh is
not
working.
The latest displayed message are:
This is not helping. Please reboot the system with init=/bin/bash,
manually run:
/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs start
/etc/init.d/udev start
and check what really happens.
I've to borrow an other keyboard: mine is usb and not initialised yet  
at this level.

Anyway, I have got some arror message about the node for my root  
filesystem (which is on lvm)

Anyway, when I've started the system with the new version of udev, I  
gor the following error:

<<
The device node /dev/mapper/vg00-root_lv for the root filesystem is  
missing, incorrect or there is no entry for the root filesystem in
/etc/fstab. The system is also unable to create temporary node in  
/dev/shm to use as a work-around. This means that you have to fix this  
manually.



#BUS="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}="056a", SYSFS{idProduct}="0011",
NAME="%k",
SYMLINK="input/tablet"
But the way, if I tried to enable this line, it creates first the
right
symlink but it is overwritten later with every device in /dev/inout/
to
finally stay with the latest found.
I find hard to believe that such a bug is exposed only on your system.
To be able to boot, I've started the system on a live CD and the
download the previous debian package fro udev (0.050-6) from
If udev breaks, you can disable it by disabling the init script.
Or else, add to the top of the init script:
if [ "$DISABLE_UDEV" = "yes" ]; then
 echo "udev disabled by a kernel parameter
 exit 0
fi
Ok done, this save me from using a live cd to recover.
and you will be able to disable it by adding DISABLE_UDEV=yes to the
kernel command line.
--
ciao,
Marco
Jean-Luc