On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 09:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:07:14 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > The problem is most (not all !) device nodes getting root/root > > owner/group. So /dev/snd, /dev/video belongs to root and not the > > official groups. So any kind of desktop interaction (webcams, audio > > etc) fails unless its the root user. > > > > It appears that udev isnt reading the rules files - whilst on another > > much older system with 189 all is fine :( > > Have you tried running udevadm test on one of the affected nodes? > > For example > > % sudo udevadm info --name=/dev/video0 | grep '^P:' > P: > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:03:00.0/0000:04:01.0/video4linux/video0 > > % sudo udevadm test > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:03:00.0/0000:04:01.0/video4linux/video0 > [lots of output about rules being read and actions done] > > Brilliant! - worked and noticing the paths involved was the hint I needed. Turned out the old style init.d file for udev was present and had to be deleted before the emerge would replace it with the new one. I am wondering if sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-16 is doing something non-standard or has some bug as its not creating an update file (or whatever its called :) for etc-update and there are some errors in a compress routine ... will look further tomorrow.
Thanks. BillK
