On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 22:58:53 -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Howdy List, > > This being gone at school for 5 months and then trying to fix 6 > computers when I get home all at the same time is getting old. :-) > > My latest problem is on a Thinkpad that I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. > The upgrade installed a 2.6.18-*-486 kernel and udev, which I changed to > a 2.6.18-*-686 kernel (and udev). Now whenever I boot the laptop it has > a ton of permission problems in /dev. For > starters, /dev/random, /dev/urandom, /dev/tty* & /dev/null have > permissions of 660 while being owned by root:root, which effectively > restricts logins to root only. I > edited /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules to do different > permissions and/or group ownerships, but it seems to be ignoring the > rules. /var/log/syslog does not show any udev errors at boot time, > either.
Did you purge the hotplug package after the upgrade? You can check with "dpkg -l hotplug | tail -n1". It should show "pn" (and not "rc") as the first two characters. > It also broke my wireless connection, but I can not yet determine if > that is udev related or not (not real sure how it could be, though). > > I have tried Googling the problem as well as looking through the udev > bugs on bugs.d.o, all to no avail. > > Does anyone have any thoughts or hints on what might be causing this > udev problem? Let me know if you need any additional info or logfiles. > > TIA, > Jacob -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
