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
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/ts0/dev
/sys/class/input/input3/event3/dev
/sys/class/input/input4/event4/dev
/sys/class/input/input4/mouse1/dev
/sys/class/input/input4/ts1/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/evtchn/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.2/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.3/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev6.1/dev
/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:



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