while glancing through the ubuntu package to prepare
the udev initramfs-tools hooks move, i found this changelog entry:
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* Added debian/patches/55-run-program.patch which stops udevd declaring
that the sky is falling just because a program can't be found, it'll
output a warning (normally muted) and can be replayed later with
udevplug -F
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attached, also following entry might be out of interest:
* Fix a few bugs in the init script that prevented udev from being started
on systems without initramfs, or after it was stopped.
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maks
diff -x debian -ruNp udev-076~/udev_utils_run.c udev-076/udev_utils_run.c
--- udev-076~/udev_utils_run.c 2005-11-22 16:34:55.000000000 +0000
+++ udev-076/udev_utils_run.c 2005-12-01 14:01:40.379128250 +0000
@@ -152,8 +152,13 @@ int run_program(const char *command, con
dup2(errpipe[WRITE_END], STDERR_FILENO);
execv(argv[0], argv);
- /* we should never reach this */
- err("exec of program '%s' failed", argv[0]);
+ if ((errno == ENOENT) || (errno = ENOTDIR)) {
+ /* will probably turn up later */
+ info("program '%s' not found", argv[0]);
+ } else {
+ /* bigger problems */
+ err("exec of program '%s' failed", argv[0]);
+ }
_exit(1);
case -1:
err("fork of '%s' failed: %s", argv[0], strerror(errno));
