Ubuntu
devfsd package

devfsd in too many runnlevels

Bug #1792 reported by Edgar Hucek
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
devfsd (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

By default devfsd is started in every runnlevel
which makes no sense. The only place where it
should be started is rcS.d .

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ED.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in devfsd:
assignee: nobody → motu
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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote :

    The devfsd init script uses start-stop-daemon to be sure that only one copy is running, and so the extra links should do no damage. If this is causing any irregular behavior on any systems, please report the error in a comment.

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Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I think devfsd is deprecated now, replaced by udev. So you should be using udev with Ubuntu 5.10. I would close this bug but I prefer having a second opinion.

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

Devfs is indeed deprecated in favor of udev, and many services start in multiple runlevels. This is perfectly normal for debian/ubuntu, where runlevels aren't handled like you may be used to from redhat/mandrake/fedora.

Changed in devfsd:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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