Package: udev
Version: 0.054-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Hi,

after the last udev update my system did not come up anymore because
udev failed to start and then no partitions but / had been found...

The Problem: udev relies on /tmp to be a directory on startup. On my
System /tmp is only a symlink to /var/tmp which made udev not start.

Suggested solution:

Do not use /tmp for temporary mounts on system start or test it to be a
real directory. Maybe it would be better to create a temporary dir for
startup:

TMP="$(mktemp -d /udev-startup-XXXXXX)"

and then use $TMP to mount temp things instead of /tmp


-Marc



-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 2004-12-05 11:05 cd-aliases.rules -> 
../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 2004-10-20 11:39 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 12 2005-03-17 13:05 z_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda10/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda11/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda12/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda5/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda6/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda7/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda8/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda9/dev
/sys/block/hdc/dev
/sys/block/hdd/dev
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/sda1/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/dev
/sys/class/input/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/input/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/nvram/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/misc/vmmon/dev
/sys/class/misc/watchdog/dev
/sys/class/printer/lp0/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp1/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp2/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio1/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio2/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC1/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC2/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC3/dev
/sys/class/sound/dmmidi/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp1/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp2/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/dev
/sys/class/sound/midiC0D0/dev
/sys/class/sound/midi/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer1/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer2/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/pcmC0D2p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC1D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC1D1p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC2D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC2D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/usb/hiddev0/dev
/sys/class/video4linux/radio0/dev
/sys/class/video4linux/vbi0/dev
/sys/class/video4linux/video0/dev

-- Kernel configuration:
 isapnp_init not present.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=en_US, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  hotplug                  0.0.20040329-19 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  initscripts              2.86.ds1-1      Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  makedev                  2.3.1-77        creates device files in /dev
ii  sed                      4.1.4-2         The GNU sed stream editor

-- debconf information:
  udev/devfs-warning:
  udev/reboot-warning:


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