weird udev behaviour

[Csillag Kristof <csillag.kristof.ext@united-consult.hu>]

Dear all,


On some of my machines, udev started to act strangely lately.


It created all the device files in the root of the /dev directory,

instead of the normal places.


(Instead of /dev/input/mice, I get /dev/mice; instead of /dev/snd/* I
get /dev/*, etc.)


Of course, this breaks a lot of things.


I have no idea what caused this.

I am running an etch/sid hybrid.


I did not update udev lately.


Unfortunately, I do not use apt-listchanges on this box, so I can not
tell exactly

which packages were upgradet lately, but I am sure the change happened

in the last few (say, 3) days.


I have never seen this problem before.

Could you please give me some ideas what can be wrong?


Thank you for your help:


    Kristof Csillag