finally solved.it seems that in the upgrading/downgrading mess my /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory was cleaned up. Had to make some symlinks from the default rules that dpkg ships in /etc/udev/ to /etc/udev/rules.d. Now most of permissions and devs are more or less functional. still need to know if my usb mouse will work.
just in case somebody happens to meet himself with this thing, I write down the symlinks I did, as I did them.
ln -s /etc/udev/udev.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules ln -s /etc/udev/permissions.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules ln -s /etc/udev/run.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/z50_run.rules ln -s /etc/udev/hotplugd.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/z70_hotplug.rules greetings Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
* Jose de Zarate wrote:This morning, when I turned the computer on , I found myself with the boot message 'can't find /dev/hda5' (which is where I've got my root). After a couple of desperate hours (I can't afford losing the system), where I downgraded udev to 0.84-1 (which worked well for me), and some dpkg-reconfigure linux-kernel_2.6.15-1 I got my system booting again.Could you please try udev 0.87-1pbo1 with the updated package of initramfs-tools from http://people.backports.org/~tretkowski/upload/initramfs-tools/ Norbert