On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:59:39PM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:38 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > > The /dev/.udev/db have been touched as well, which heavily implies that
> > > udev was triggered.
> > > 
> > > With the rules being moved, it is possible that the trigger would reset
> > > the permissions to 0660.
> > 
> > Why would a trigger set the permissions to 0660 when the udev rule calls for
> > 0666?
> > 
> Because the running udev can't parse the new configuration files?  (It
> doesn't even look in the right place for them.)
>
> If something forced udev to reload its configuration (which has gone
> away), then it would end up with none, so fallback on defaults
> (root:root/0660)

I haven't been able to identify any misbehaving packages.  Is it feasible to
have it fail in a less horrible way?

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Wrong permissions in /dev after Intrepid->Jaunty upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317944
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