On Monday 22 October 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: > David, > > On Saturday 20 October 2007, David Baron wrote: > > 1. Noticed that the installation is looking for udev stuff. I do not use > > udev so it does not find it. Installation proceeds without it. > > And there should be no further problem at all if udev was not found. > The udev rule is just there to ensure the correct permissions of > /dev/vboxdrv. If udev is not used, /etc/init.d/vboxdrv does the job of > changing the permissions.
Once gets a few error messages in the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup script--a udevinfo not found and some integer expresson expected. After that, thing proceed perfectly. > > > Seems that a lot of things look for either a udev subdirectory to place > > their rules (useful if udev is used) or some command to get such > > information. Several packages have placed udev as a dependency because of > > this and now I cannot upgrade them. > > One can live quite well without udev and good old hotplug does its job > > just fine. Maybe udev is great (many post about problems, however), but > > if it not be really needed, then please do not make it a dependency in > > future upgrades. Installation scripts can get around the presence or > > absence of udev in a correct and friendly manner. I made the directory to > > get around such an installation problem. Harmless enough. > > I still do not understand the problem. Did the installation script fail > on your distribution? BTW: What distribution are you using? I am running Debian Sid and installing off the .deb. There is no problem now until someone decides to make udev a dependency. This was just done with linux-sound-base package so I can no longer upgrade this. Udev rules for various sound devices are of course desirable but as I said, I can live without udev. > > > 2. Noticed that a "host networking" is "stopped" and then successfully > > started by the installation. New feature? Usage? > > Do you mean the /etc/init.d/vboxnet script? > > Kind regards, > > Frank _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
