From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751015AbWG0T5H (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751890AbWG0T5H (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:57:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:55232 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751015AbWG0T5F (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:57:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:56:55 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com Cc: andrew.j.wade@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20060727125655.f5f443ea.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200607281546.09592.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> References: <20060727015639.9c89db57.akpm@osdl.org> <200607281546.09592.ajwade@cpe001346162bf9-cm0011ae8cd564.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:46:08 -0400 Andrew James Wade wrote: > Hello, > > Some change between -rc1-mm2 and -rc2-mm1 broke Kubuntu's udev > (079-0ubuntu34). In particular /dev/mem went missing, and /dev/null had > bogus permissions (crw-------). I've kludged around the problem by > populating /lib/udev/devices from a good /dev, but I'm assuming the > breakage was unintentional. > /dev/null damage is due to a combination of vdso-hash-style-fix.patch and doing the kernel build as root (don't do that). I don't know what happened to /dev/mem.