On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:47:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > An interesting comment.
> Subject: Bug#317333: acknowledged by developer (Bug#317333: fixed in udev > 0.063-1) > From: Mourad De Clerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:49 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Aug 14, Mourad De Clerck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, using linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7 2.6.12-2 and udev 0.066-1 I > > > can still reproduce this bug. After boot certain devices don't show up, > > One of the udev maintainers suggested to try adding mousedev to > > /etc/modules. > > > > Actually, they are on to something because I had just found out > something significant. > > I had 2 things in my /etc/modules: > > mousedev > ide-cd > > The reason why I added mousedev is that (quite) a while back it wouldn't > get automatically loaded. ide-cd was a debian default if I am not > mistaken. > > I commented both out, and on reboot /dev/input/mice was there! Strange, the event seems to get lost. If you restore the failing setup and add a "sleep 1" before udevstart, does it work then? > Just to make sure there were no other devices missing, I started > udevstart again and compared the before and afters: > > --- dev_before_udevstart.txt 2005-08-25 16:20:35.000000000 +0200 > +++ dev_after_udevstart.txt 2005-08-25 16:20:54.000000000 +0200 > @@ -1,2 +1,5 @@ > /dev/ > +/dev/dvd1 > +/dev/cdrw1 > +/dev/cdrom1 > /dev/vcsa1 > > Now this is weird (and new) - there's no clear reason why extra > (unecessary) dev nodes are made afterwards, and why he didn't make them > in the first place (on boot). The nodes point to the same thing: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 25 16:19 /dev/dvd -> hdc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Aug 25 16:20 /dev/dvd1 -> hdc > > (similarly for cdrw/cdrw1, and cdrom/cdrom1 - there's no dvd0) > > I guess it's because I commented out ide-cd too ...? > > It's still very weird that modules listed in /etc/modules have this > effect on udev. In the end the same modules are loaded, just at > different times (and maybe twice?). No, this is ok. %e is used, i think. That %e is not very smart and just increases the number if the udevdb is not cleared before the run of udevstart. Kay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]