Package: udev Version: 0.125-7+lenny1 Severity: important /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules contains OWNER= and GROUP= statements that reference users and groups that do not exist in the standard system files /etc/passwd and /etc/group, namely:
KERNEL=="nvram", GROUP="nvram" KERNEL=="tpm*", MODE="0600", OWNER="tss", GROUP="tss" KERNEL=="fuse", GROUP="fuse" KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm" KERNEL=="uverbs*", GROUP="rdma" KERNEL=="ucm*", GROUP="rdma" KERNEL=="rdma_cm", GROUP="rdma" This is problematic in two ways: * On many systems, devices created by those rules cannot be created with correct ownership: udevd does not have any way of finding out the right values for mknod. I've not tested to see whether it will create them with incorrect ownerships or fail altogether. Either behaviour would be broken... * On systems using LDAP etc., udevd will complain at boot that it can't contact the server to find the information it needs. This is the root cause of #375077. Changes to the libnss-ldap package work around the breakage so that systems no longer fail to boot, but the cause is in udev and should be fixed here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Is there anybody out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
