Re: Sarge -> Etch = udev problems

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 22:58:53 -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> Howdy List,
> 
> This being gone at school for 5 months and then trying to fix 6
> computers when I get home all at the same time is getting old. :-)
> 
> My latest problem is on a Thinkpad that I upgraded from Sarge to Etch.
> The upgrade installed a 2.6.18-*-486 kernel and udev, which I changed to
> a 2.6.18-*-686 kernel (and udev). Now whenever I boot the laptop it has
> a ton of permission problems in /dev. For
> starters, /dev/random, /dev/urandom, /dev/tty* & /dev/null have
> permissions of 660 while being owned by root:root, which effectively
> restricts logins to root only. I
> edited /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules to do different
> permissions and/or group ownerships, but it seems to be ignoring the
> rules. /var/log/syslog does not show any udev errors at boot time,
> either.

Did you purge the hotplug package after the upgrade? You can check with
"dpkg -l hotplug | tail -n1". It should show "pn" (and not "rc") as the
first two characters.
 
> It also broke my wireless connection, but I can not yet determine if
> that is udev related or not (not real sure how it could be, though). 
> 
> I have tried Googling the problem as well as looking through the udev
> bugs on bugs.d.o, all to no avail.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on what might be causing this
> udev problem? Let me know if you need any additional info or logfiles.
> 
> TIA,
> Jacob

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