Re: Upgrading to current udev is disastrous if not on kernel 2.6.12

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ed <edd@avenuedesign.net> writes:

> I don't usually report these types of problems but this one was particularly
> nasty. I just had a major disaster by upgrading to udev 0.62. It requires a
> kernel 2.6.12.
> After a system reboot my system wouldn't function due to lacking /dev/sda2-5
> etc.
> I sorted it out by coping a new kernel source onto the system and recompiling.
> Anyway the moral to the story is:
> Don't install this package unless you have upgraded your kernel!!!!
> Regards
> Ed.

You can't. The latest version checks the kernel version in preinst.

Did you have 0.062-4?

MfG
        Goswin