Comment 12 for bug 253786

I don't know if it means that it would become available in the proposed updates for intrepid or not. I don't enable that repo. Also, I think we all got notified that a guy testing the new udev in jaunty still has this problem with libsensors. Since I have 3 machines with this issue I have implemented what i think Peter Cordes was hinting at by modifying /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh for the time being:

after:
 #
 # Remove /lib/init/rw/rootdev if we created it.
 #
 rm -f /lib/init/rw/rootdev

added:
 echo "UDEV /dev/.static/dev REMOUNT RW HACK"
 mount -o remount,rw /dev /dev/.static/dev

after reboot:
$ cat /proc/mounts |grep /dev
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/8a22bb23-7295-4efc-9d0a-a0b6c25dba27 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/8a22bb23-7295-4efc-9d0a-a0b6c25dba27 /dev/.static/dev ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620 0 0

hopefully this is sane and sets aside the symptom long enough for things to get sorted out the way they should be