Comment 24 for bug 11364

Message-ID: <20060111104322.GI7691@nancy>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:43:22 +0100
From: maximilian attems <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#286756: udev gets tmpfs kernel support test wrong

Version: linux-image-2.6.15

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, John R. McPherson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:36:23PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi John!
> >
> > Could you please retest with a current kernel (testing:2.6.12,
> > unstable:2.6.14) and a current udev (>= 0.076)?
>
> Hi,
> I thought this was fixed some time ago... the /etc/init.d/udev
> script now checks if files can successfully be created in the tmpfs
> /dev dir:
>
> # using ln to test if /dev works, because touch is in /usr/bin/
> if ln -s test /dev/test-file; then
> rm /dev/test-file
> log_end_msg 0
> else
> log_failure_msg "FATAL: udev requires tmpfs support, not started."
> umount /etc/udev
> umount /dev
> log_end_msg 1
> exit 1
> fi
>
> (This is from udev version 0.060-1ubuntu1, I'm not sure which version
> in debian fixed it).

ok cool.

> The problem only occurred if someone was using a kernel that they compiled
> themselves, since the debian provided kernels had the required support.

well then he gains some experience about badly chosen .configs ;)

> So it's fixed for udev, at least. I thought it had been re-assigned to
> linux-2.6 because someone thought the bug was for listing tmpfs in
> /proc/filesystems when tmpfs wasn't available.

egrep tmpfs /proc/filesystems
nodev tmpfs

closing therefor

--
maks