Comment 0 for bug 7891

Package: udev
Version: 0.030-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

Today udev was installed on my system as a dependency of another package
(I guess). After rebooting everything using devices except for the very
most common such as tty's and hard disks broke.

After some time I figured out that most of my devices where missing and
also that I could not restore them.

I remembered that a new package called udev was installed and found
that it was started in /etc/rcS.d. I removed it (mv S04udev K04udev)
and voila all devices where back.

Conclusion: For some reason it is not the default compatibility devices
in /etc/udev that are loaded but a VERY minor part of them.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-14 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii initscripts 2.86-1 Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libnewt0.51 0.51.6-5 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii makedev 2.3.1-74 Creates device files in /dev

-- debconf information:
  udev/devfs-warning:
* udev/reboot-warning: