On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:29 -0800, kristian kvilekval wrote:
> I just did a normal upgrade and ran into a whole
> lot of problems after doing the suggested "reboot".
>
> The problem where manifested while trying to load
> the "usb" devices. The boot process stops and
> will not continue until ^C or sometimes fails
> completely and requires resetting the system.
>
> Checking the BTS, it seems the /etc/udev/rules.d
> gets an incorrect symlink if the package hal is also
> loaded. This should really be documented somewhere
> or probably in the package documentation.
> I found that cleaning out /etc/udev/rules.d
> and then linking
> ln -s /etc/udev/udev.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
> did the trick for most problems, yet I still have
> some boot failures (again while loading usb).
>
> Previously loaded drivers such as network and video
> drivers also failed to load automatically. These
> had to be added to the /etc/modules before the system
> would boot properly.
>
> Has anybody else run into this also? My system
> still fails to come up cleanly. Currently I have
> to boot into recovery mode and then exit from that
> in order to get X to run correctly. Not exactly
> sure why this would matter, but it does.
That's interesting. I just did a big Sid upgrade, and installed
hal. The symlink exists.
# dir /etc/udev/rules.d
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2004-11-30 15:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2004-12-02 06:48 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 2004-11-29 03:43 10-local.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2004-11-15 17:54 udev.rules
-> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2004-11-30 15:07 z_hal-plugdev.rules
-> ../hal.rules
udev 0.046-4
hal 0.4.1-2
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