Package: udev
Version: 0.103-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Machine tracks Debian Sid somewhat intermittently. Running stock kernel.
On update to 17/1/2006 state of Debian Sid I noted that the initrd
images was updated.
The installation requested hotplug be purged.
So I ran apt-get --purge remove hotplug before continuing.
On rebooting the machine got stuck after mounting the ReiserFS
filesystem error was;
Buffer I/O error on device hdc1 logical block 26255
(apologies for obvious reasons I couldn't cut and paste the error).
This error then repeated with different block numbers.
I was able to reboot using the sarge kernel 2.6.8-2.386 which had been
left over from installation, copy the initrd.img-2.6.15.bak over the
initrd.img-2.6.15 (after first saving it to a safe place), and the system
them booted as expected.
If you need me to test any specific software configurations on this
hardware please advise.
The box in question can be spared for Debian related testing and
development as required.
I haven't explicitly tested the hard disk for errors, but I've no reason
to doubt the problem
wasn't caused by the upgrade. The box is exhibiting other problematic
behaviour at the time, however that is believed to be application level
software issues (OpenOffice). Will update this report if any hardware
issues are found in testing.
The update included a large number of other packages, but a diff of the
initrd images suggests that udev is responsible for the majority of the
difference in that areas.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-02-09 23:02 020_permissions.rules -
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-02-09 23:02 udev.rules - ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2007-01-22 19:26 z20_persistent-input.rules
- ../persistent-input.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-02-09 23:02 z20_persistent.rules -
../persistent.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698 2007-01-22 20:01 z25_persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 436 2007-01-22 19:31 z25_persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2007-01-22 19:26
z45_persistent-net-generator.rules - ../persistent-net-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-02-09 23:02 z50_run.rules - ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-02-09 23:02 z55_hotplug.rules -
../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-02-26 17:39 z60_alsa-utils.rules -
../alsa-utils.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-08-06 13:46
z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules - ../xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-01-22 19:26
z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules - ../cd-aliases-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-01-22 19:30 z99_hal.rules - ../hal.rules
-- /sys/:
/sys/block/fd0/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hdc/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc1/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc2/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc3/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/class/drm/card0/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev
/sys/class/sound/seq/dev
/sys/class/sound/sequencer2/dev
/sys/class/sound/sequencer/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev
-- Kernel configuration:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (1001, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration
management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
ii libvolume-id0 0.103-2 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip
udev recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
udev/new_kernel_needed: false
udev/reboot_needed:
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