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Re: Mount point /dev/.static/dev is not responding



Damon Chesser <damon@damtek.com> writes:

> On Monday 21 March 2005 01:24 pm, Javier Kohen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> El lun, 21-03-2005 a las 07:16 -0600, damon@damtek.com escribió:
>> > the subject is the error I get while running xfe file manager.  I have
>> > ran sid for quite some time, and have never had this error untill I tried
>> > pure64. The permissions on the folder are: root.root drwx------ .  I can
>> > as root set them to 666 and the error goes away. How can I avoid this as
>> > this automagicaly comes up as 700 at boot?
>>
>> udev (0.054-3) unstable; urgency=high
>>
>> [..]
>>   * Use /dev/.static/dev/ instead of /.dev/ to keep the root clean and
>>     to not leave around devices with possibly insecure permissions.
>>     This requires raising the versioned dependency on makedev to
>> 2.3.1-77.
>>     (Closes: #294968)
>> [..]
>>  -- Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:55:38 +0100
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be a Debian AMD64-specific bug. The above change
>> was introduced last week in the udev package. Maybe you should contact
>> the xfe author, as it looks like a bug there.
>>
>> Greetings,
> Ty, I will try that.
> -- 
> Damon L. Chesser
> damon@damtek.com

Note that users have no permissions to the mountpoint. While udev
should hide that entry for various reasons xfe should not fail on it
either. I suggest finding the problem in xfe before udev hides the
problem again.

MfG
        Goswin



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