On Apr 7, 2013 8:13 AM, "William Kenworthy" <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> 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
Well, *my* Gentoo servers are already running mdev...
Hmm... doesn't anyone think it's weird that we haven't heard any complaints
/ horror stories from the Gentoo-server mailing list?
Rgds,
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