unable to boot: udevd unable to create db file
Bug #333614 reported by
Bryan Larsen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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udev (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Note: I still have bug 328892 (the initial report). This may be related to that or to bug 332270.
I boot my machine as detailed in bug report 328892. However, while I'm doing it, messages similar to this spew continuously:
udevd[959]: unable to create db file '/dev/.
eventually I drop back into the busybox shell with messages similar to that seen in the second report of bug 328892.
I can boot with 2.6.24, but it takes forever. The first chance I get I drop back to the root shell and kill udevd.
I'm running udev 138-2
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OK, I think I got it working. If I boot with the workaround in bug 328892 and the workaround in bug 332270, I can boot a 2.6.28-8 kernel.
I have udev 138-2 installed, so I shouldn't have needed the second workaround. Perhaps the install of udev 138-2 didn't patch my 2.6.28-8 kernel because that wasn't the kernel running at the time. However, something more than that was wrong because I still had the offending 'watch' in my /lib/udev/rules.d on my root file system as well as the initramfs.
Unfortunately I did not save any of the rules files before I modified them with the sed script.