Page 5-6 of a long udev thread is good reading on recent udev problems. Robert http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-355069-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-100.html
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:51 am, Steve Evans wrote: > On Monday 05 Sep 2005 15:31, Robert Crawford wrote: > > I just had a similar problem after I updated udev (I think). I run ~x86 > > systems, always kept current, so I expect a few minor hiccups, even > > though I'm extremely careful with etc-update. There seems to be some > > weird stuff going on with udev, at least on my system, but after a lot of > > reading on the formum, and trying many things, I tried changing my fstab > > line > > > > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,rw,user > > 0 0 > > > > to this. > > > > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,rw,user 0 0 > > > > I think some rule in the new udev changed, and it wasn't creating cdroms > > and cdrom0 anymore- only /dev/hdc. > > > > I looked in /dev, and sure enough, the cdrom and cdrw links point to the > > hdc block device. > > > > Anyway, whatever it was, changing the fstab line now lets me mount cdroms > > normally, as before. > > > > Robert Crawford > > I assume that as you are running ~x86 you have upgraded to gentoo-sources > version 2.6.13. In that version devfs has been removed (well the config > option has gone, the code is still there). The /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 style of > device file name is a part of devfs, so if with earlier kernels you still > had devfs enabled in the kernel, despite running udev, then you would have > gotten the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 link. > > I am running x86 and running with udev but with devfs still in the kernel. > Yesterday I disabled devfs on one of the machines so that I could see what > would break in preparation for 2.6.13 moving to x86. I experienced exactly > your problem of /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 disappearing. Fortunately the solution > is simple, as you describe above. > > Steve > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > Steve Evans E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > WEB: http://www.gorbag.com > Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org > Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html > ____________________________________________________________________ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
