Re: sid udev users, be careful with udev upgrade

[Angus Mackenzie <angus@bellheath.org>]

I echo the caution.

I was a bit put off by the apt-listbugs output when udev_0.090-1 became 
available, so I waited. I let 0.090.2 upgrade; I can remember how much 
trouble I had with it because I´ve been playing with several systems over the 
weekend. I did not succeed in dist-upgrading a 386 system from testing to 
unstable because of udev. (If you can do it, you are not ready...)

I installed 0.090-3 this morning and a little later had an xorg 7 99% CPU time 
event (not had one of those on this machine before...).

I guess unstable is finally living up to its reputation after several 
trouble-free months.

I rebooted and was dismayed to find that the machine did not complete booting.
No network interfaces (including lo) were found. Booting back into repair 
mode, ifconfig showed nothing. Error messages showed No such device

I used dpkg  --force-depends to allow me to step back to udev 0.089-1 
from /var/cache/apt/archives. This allows me to boot to desktop or console 
but hasn´t given me a network interface (eth0 is now named eth0-ifr or some 
such)

I see udev 0.090-4 has appeared; looks like I will be installing it from 
floppy!

K8VX Mainboard, Sempron 64 (my amd-64 died) 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8
Unstable from uk.debian.org
Inside leg 28 1/2 inches

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