Package: udev Version: 0.105-4 Severity: normal
Hi, as the subject says, sometimes the permissions of /dev/null, /dev/(u)random and some others gets set to 0660, which obviously is not very useful. It's not related to rebooting, but happens at odd times when the system is otherwise up&running fine. Searching around on the 'net didn't prove very useful (only some reports without a real solution, for Ubuntu and Slackware variants of udev). grep-ing the /etc/udev* brought no enlightenment either, but running (as suggested in /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz) /usr/share/doc/udev/examples/udevtest-all indicates (for a mere sysadmin like me) that somehow udev's to be blamed here: ... main: looking at device '/class/mem/null' from subsystem 'mem' udev_rules_get_name: no node name set, will use kernel name 'null' udev_db_get_device: found a symlink as db file udev_device_event: device '/class/mem/null' already in database, validate curren tly present symlinks udev_node_add: creating device node '/dev/null', major = '1', minor = '3', mode = '0660', uid = '0', gid = '0' ... Any hints? FWIW, this machine's acting as Xen dom0, but this also hit us on some domUs. cheers, Robert Waldner -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3586 2008-08-28 03:39 50-udev.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1543 2008-08-28 03:39 60-persistent-input.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4554 2008-08-28 03:39 60-persistent-storage.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1582 2008-08-28 03:39 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 2008-08-28 03:39 60-persistent-v4l.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1083 2008-07-17 11:53 65_dmsetup.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 496 2007-04-06 02:23 70-persistent-net.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452 2008-08-28 03:39 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3081 2008-08-28 03:39 75-persistent-net-generator.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2282 2008-08-28 03:39 80-drivers.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4247 2008-08-28 03:39 91-permissions.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593 2008-08-28 03:39 95-late.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-04-09 00:41 z60_xen-backend.rules -> ../xen-backend.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/cciss!c0d0/cciss!c0d0p1/dev /sys/block/cciss!c0d0/cciss!c0d0p2/dev /sys/block/cciss!c0d0/dev /sys/block/dm-0/dev /sys/block/dm-10/dev /sys/block/dm-11/dev /sys/block/dm-12/dev /sys/block/dm-13/dev /sys/block/dm-14/dev /sys/block/dm-15/dev /sys/block/dm-16/dev /sys/block/dm-17/dev /sys/block/dm-18/dev /sys/block/dm-19/dev /sys/block/dm-1/dev /sys/block/dm-20/dev /sys/block/dm-21/dev /sys/block/dm-22/dev /sys/block/dm-23/dev /sys/block/dm-24/dev /sys/block/dm-25/dev /sys/block/dm-26/dev /sys/block/dm-2/dev /sys/block/dm-3/dev /sys/block/dm-4/dev /sys/block/dm-5/dev /sys/block/dm-6/dev /sys/block/dm-7/dev /sys/block/dm-8/dev /sys/block/dm-9/dev /sys/block/loop0/dev /sys/block/loop1/dev /sys/block/loop2/dev /sys/block/loop3/dev /sys/block/loop4/dev /sys/block/loop5/dev /sys/block/loop6/dev /sys/block/loop7/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev 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/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-0:1.0/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-0:1.0/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-0:1.0/usbdev3.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/usbdev3.1_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-0:1.0/usbdev4.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/usbdev4.1_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb6/6-0:1.0/usbdev6.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb6/usbdev6.1_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/5-0:1.0/usbdev5.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.0/usbdev5.2_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/5-1/5-1:1.1/usbdev5.2_ep82/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/5-1/usbdev5.2_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/usbdev5.3_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/5-2/usbdev5.3_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:01:04.4/usb5/usbdev5.1_ep00/dev -- Kernel configuration: isapnp_init not present. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (1001, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.105-4 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip udev recommends no packages. -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/reboot_needed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to 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