[gobolinux-users] Issues with Udev 095

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:50:34 +0200, Lucas C. Villa Real  
<lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:

> On 7/16/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> As I want to get rid of hotplug I tried Udev 095. After reboot I could  
>> not
>> start a terminal. tty1-6 was created, but everytime I tried to start
>> xterm, Eterm or even Terminal I just got a line saying "Press any key to
>> exit...".
>> After that I read up on Udev and found that I had forgotten about the
>> coldplug script. Didn't someone send this to one of the lists, because I
>> can't find it now.
>
> The Coldplug task is now appended to the Udev task. There is no need
> to call it manually.
>
Ok, that explains why I couldn't find it :)

>> My network failed to start as well. /S/V/log/messages reported alot of
>> "Jul 15 23:58:14 (none) net.agent[5444]: add event not handled". What  
>> does
>> this mean and is net.agent really supposed to run as it's a hotplug  
>> script?
>
> That's strange.. could you please check the value of  
> /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug?
>
I'll use your recipe and get back on that.
Maybe it's because I forgot to remove the "Hotplug start" line from the  
bootscripts :*)
Should I leave the Udev task?

>> I changed a rule to make Udev handle firmware loading (for my ipw2200)  
>> from
>> /51-hotplug.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", RUN+="firmware.agent"
>> to
>> 50-udev.rules:ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware",
>> RUN+="/System/Links/Libraries/udev/firmware.sh"
>>
>> As hotplug still launched for my network interface, maybe this mix and
>> match didn't work the way I thought. Anyone got an idea about this?
>
> I've found a problem in the recipe, where the basic /dev contents were
> not being populated again after tmpfs-mounting it. I've just fixed
> that and added your firmware rule to the recipe again. By the way,
> doesn't your change works if you do that in the same file (51- instead
> of moving it to 50-)?
>
I moved it to 50- as it said "51-udev.rules" while 51- said  
"51-hotplug.rules" and the new rule was Udev specific.

> I'm attaching a new recipe for Udev, which has just been tested here
> on my PC. Could you please try to move your /Programs/Udev and
> /Programs/Hotplug somewhere else before trying it?
>



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