Admin issues with debian's udev

Posted Aug 13, 2008 0:40 UTC (Wed) by walken (subscriber, #7089)
Parent article: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

I recently hit a small issue with this...

My HTPC system runs debian etch. Suspend is broken on this system, patches are available for
some kernel versions. So, I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.26 plus some ACPI patches, and now
suspend works... But, debian's udev won't create the usual devices for my SATA DVD drive after
I upgrade the kernel to 2.6.26. /dev/scd0 is created normally, but /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom
links are not showing up.

I can't really complain to debian, since they don't support that kernel version. But, I can't
easily do much about this either, since updating my udev to a newer upstream version would be
extremely likely to break more things than it fixes (not bashing upstream udev here, just that
things would end up not set up the way debian expects them).

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Admin issues with debian's udev

Posted Aug 13, 2008 8:55 UTC (Wed) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] (2 responses)

lenny is expected to ship with 2.6.26. udev really ought to be working with it.

Admin issues with debian's udev

Posted Aug 13, 2008 14:39 UTC (Wed) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470) [Link] (1 responses)

>>> lenny is expected to ship with 2.6.26. udev really ought to be working with it.

Are you sure ? I think there is a 2.6.25 kernel in lenny.

Admin issues with debian's udev

Posted Aug 13, 2008 18:08 UTC (Wed) by tbm (subscriber, #7049) [Link]

Yes, at the moment 2.6.25 is in testing but we're working on getting 2.6.26 in.

Admin issues with debian's udev

Posted Aug 13, 2008 10:18 UTC (Wed) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (1 responses)

It may well be that the udev version in etch is too old to work with recent kernels. Udev and
the kernel should always be upgraded to somewhat matching versions, together.

You should definately file a bug about this anyway--if etch's udev does not work with lenny's
kernel then we will need to add instructions on how to upgrade both together to the lenny
release notes (as we did for the sarge -> etch upgrade).

Admin issues with debian's udev

Posted Aug 13, 2008 23:40 UTC (Wed) by walken (subscriber, #7089) [Link]

Turned out enabling CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in my kernel fixed it. Marco pointed that to me
after I filed the bug. So, assuming lenny's kernel will be built with this, there should be no
issues.