On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 19:25 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > 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
for future reference: 'dpkg --force-depends -P udev' will remove it and leave ubuntu-minimal and initramfs-tools in place. Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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