Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jul 27 2006 - 15:55:01 EST


On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:46:08 -0400
Andrew James Wade <andrew.j.wade@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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