On Sun, Apr 30, 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Since this upgrade, I am not getting the correct permissions on some > /dev nodes, in particular: > > # ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-30 11:54 /dev/null
Completely purging udev and then reinstalling seems to have repaired this. Using "aptitude reinstall udev" alone didn't work, so I had to use "dpkg --purge udev ubuntu-minimal initramfs-tools" (ubuntu-minimal and initramfs-tools depend on udev) and then "aptitude install ubuntu-minimal" to reinstall all three. I suppose I should have captured the state of the files in the udev package, but I did not... -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
