On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:21:04PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:36:12 -0400, Scott Reese wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > That might be caused by a missing S36udev-mtab link in rcS.d. > > > > > > The root of the problem seems to be a bug in sysv-rc, which made > > > update-rc.d remove existing links in rcS.d. Details are in bug #386500. > > > > > > For me it was enough to run "dpkg-reconfigure udev" to have both > > > symlinks generated again, as proposed in the discussion of the bug. > > > Other services might also be affected, if their packages were upgraded > > > while the bug was present in sysv-rc. > > > > > > > Greetings Florian: > > > > Did the dpkg-reconfigure udev recreate two links for you in /etc/rcS.d > > or just the S36udev-mtab link? If it created a udev link, what did that > > look like? > > Hi Scott, > > As Morten has already posted, it should be: > > $ ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*udev* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-09-08 16:46 /etc/rcS.d/S03udev -> ../init.d/udev > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-09-08 16:46 /etc/rcS.d/S36udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab > > If you are in this situation again you can check out the /etc/init.d/... > scripts. Many of them have something like this in the header: > > ### BEGIN INIT INFO > # Provides: udev > # Required-Start: mountkernfs > # Required-Stop: > # Default-Start: S > # Default-Stop: > # Short-Description: Start udevd, populate /dev and load drivers. > ### END INIT INFO > > This tells you that the service has to be started after mountkernfs, so > it has to be S03 or higher. When in doubt I would always use the lowest > possible number. > Hi Florian, With the work on other init systtems (cf. innserv and upstart), I hope that these make things easier for users. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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