On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 'Evening, Alan.
>
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>>> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and
>>>>> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to
>>>>> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!!
>>> No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody. udev-200
>>> now renames eth0, eth1, ....
>
>> Please please PLEASE, for the love of god joseph mary and every other
>> $DEITY on the planet
>
>> STOP SPREADING THIS FUD
>
>> It did not happen to pretty much everybody. It happened to people who
>> blindly updated thignsd and walked away, who did not read the news
>> announcement, who did not read the CLEARLY WORDED wiki article at
>> freedesktop.org or alternatively went into mod-induced panic and started
>> making shit up in their heads.
>
> Steady on, old chap! By "it" I was meaning the general inconvenience
> all round occasioned by the changes between udev-{197,200}. Not
> everybody encountered this. For example Dale, and Walt D. didn't have
> to do anything. But pretty much everybody else did.
>
>
I didnt get hit either either, but ("STRONG" hint") ... I use eudev, so
dies Dale and I believe Walt uses mdev. Time for those in server
environments to jump ship?
It may hit us eventually, but at the moment its :)
BillK
