> > During and after an update from etch to lenny, installation procedure > > for packages that need creating devices cannot create them. > > Why is /dev/.static/dev/ read-only on your system? Do you know? > > I've upgraded a number of systems from etch to lenny now without ever > seeing this, so I have to assume there's something different about how > our systems. > > Bdale
Hi Bdale, from the viewpoint of root, /dev/.static/dev/ is not read-only. However, MAKEDEV reports that it is read-only. Look here: --------- # whoami root # ls -la /dev/.static/dev | head total 136 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 32768 Feb 23 20:25 . drwx------ 3 root root 60 Feb 25 2009 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 12 2005 MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 14 Dec 23 2005 admmidi0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 30 Dec 23 2005 admmidi1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 46 Dec 23 2005 admmidi2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 62 Dec 23 2005 admmidi3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 23 2005 adsp -> adsp0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Dec 23 2005 adsp0 --------- The allow-write-attribute is set on "." for the root. Let's look at /etc/mtab: /dev/hda2 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /local ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 The mode for /dev is 755, so I suppose that root can read, write and cd to /dev. Am I missing something? Sasha. ------------------------------------------------------------ Photography School Earn a degree or certificate in Photography. Click here. http://tagline.excite.com/fc/FgElN1g44JgIMkktb5cdearq7hh5O2jt9HLk2N64Cnt0dIVYvPmJqi0VUR6/
