Package: udev Version: 0.053-1 Severity: grave I installed gnome on a running system and this pulled in udev. After the installation was complete, I noticed that /dev/null was not a device, was only writable by root, and probably contained some output redirected from some program that ran during the upgrade. Unfortunatly I did not think to examine the contents before rebooting, so I don't know what program wrote to it.
My guess is some kind of a race between udev moving the old /dev out of the way and creating the new /dev/null device. Either some other program on the system or a program running as part of the upgrade opened /dev/null in between and ended up creating a regular file in it's place. I've set the severity to grave because this did break the system pretty badly, for non-root users, until I rebooted it. FWIW, after the reboot, /dev/null was a proper device created by udev. This seems somewhat similar to the bug described in #296776, but I did have a lot of other devices in /dev. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 25 23:01 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 25 23:01 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 25 22:51 z_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/dm-0/dev /sys/block/dm-1/dev /sys/block/dm-2/dev /sys/block/dm-3/dev /sys/block/dm-4/dev /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda3/dev /sys/block/hdc/dev /sys/block/hdd/dev /sys/block/hdd/hdd1/dev /sys/block/hdd/hdd2/dev /sys/block/hdd/hdd3/dev /sys/block/loop0/dev /sys/block/loop1/dev /sys/block/loop2/dev /sys/block/loop3/dev /sys/block/loop4/dev /sys/block/loop5/dev /sys/block/loop6/dev /sys/block/loop7/dev /sys/block/md0/dev /sys/block/md1/dev /sys/block/md10/dev /sys/block/md100/dev 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Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-16 Linux Hotplug Scripts ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-1 Standard scripts needed for bootin ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii makedev 2.3.1-75 Creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor -- no debconf information -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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