Comment 13 for bug 144685

This problem come back if you want to upgrade hardy.

root@test:~# apt-get install -f

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up udev (117-8ubuntu0.2) ...
mknod: `/lib/udev/devices/ppp': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 udev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

mount
/dev/hdv1 on / type ufs (defaults)
none on /proc type proc (defaults)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (size=16m,mode=1777)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (gid=5,mode=620)

cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / xfs rw,relatime,ikeep,noquota 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nodiratime,relatime,nodev 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime,nodev 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime 0 0