On 9/17/07, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hisham Muhammad wrote:
> > The Udev task had a lot of replicated stuff about mounting other
> > filesystems that shouldn't be there (this interfered when restarting
> > the Udev task with StopTask and StartTask, for example.), so I removed
> > those calls to mount. Sorry about neglecting to mention this before.
> > You need to edit your /System/Settings/BootScripts/BootUp file so that
> > the "Mounting system filesystems" line (mount -a -t tmpfs, sysfs,
> > procfs) runs before the Udev Start call.
> >
> >> Even now, the newer rules try to use groups cdrom, cdrw, console, and
> >> usb, that aren't on my system.
> >
> > Yes, I spotted this: here's a newer Udev recipe.
> >
> > http://hisham.gobolinux.org/Udev--115--recipe.tar.bz2
> >
> > There shouldn't be any references to cdrw, console and usb. I kept the
> > cdrom group: please add to you /System/Settings/group file a line
> > like:
> >
> > cdrom:x:13:<any users you want there>
>
> Okay, those two changes are done and the new recipe installed and it
> works for me...
>
> 50-udev-default.rules still references 'console' group a bunch, and I
> get messages about no console group existing; I didn't find any other
> rules from non-Udev that referenced 'console'.

That's because there is no longer a 50-udev-default.rules file. This
one you have is lingering in /Programs/Udev/Settings because of older
installations. Should be safe to remove.

> Udev is still trying and failing to delete /System/Kernel/Objects
> repeatedly (according to log-messages on the console, while booting and
> while shutting down, IIRC.)

I've seen stuff like this (but it was /S/K/Devices, but I'm not sure)
and I have no clue on what's causing this. I need to investigate more.

> > Diverging to a related topic: I think we need a way so I can commit
> > those recipes (to let us have proper versioning) without breaking
> > people's systems when they use Freshen and friends. I understand
> > Gentoo has masked ebuilds, most distros have unstable repos.
> > Suggestions, anyone?
>
> A note: I've been using something like
>
> Compile -n Udev -e 115.2
> http://hisham.gobolinux.org/Udev--115--recipe.tar.bz2
>
> so that I can revert to any version I want easily.  Revisions don't
> normally do that... being able to revert here is more important when
> it's distro-specific unstableness (as I just had to, last udev recipe :)

Good trick. :)

-- Hisham
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