Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: udev
There are many symlinks missing although they are defined in /etc/udev.
I found out about it when gnomeradio complained about missing
/dev/radio, but worked when I entered manually /dev/radio0. I expected
udev to create a symlink and in fact there is a rule exactly to do that:
$ grep -r radio0 /etc/udev
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:KERNEL=="radio0",
SYMLINK+="radio"
But there was no symlink:
$ ls -l /dev/radio*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 64 2007-12-15 16:01 /dev/radio0
udevinfo told me that udev doesn't know that it should create a symlink
(note that S: entry is missing):
$ udevinfo -q all -n radio0
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:03.0/video4linux/radio0
N: radio
Other symlinks from 50-udev-default.rules are missing too, for example
systty -> tty0, XOR -> null, ramdisk -> ram0 etc. Nevertheless symlinks
for some block devices exist (cdrom -> scd0), but AFAIK they're handled
by some helper script.
udev-117-1, Hardy Heron.
** Affects: udev (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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udev doesn't create symlinks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176559
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