On Apr 7, 2013 8:13 AM, "William Kenworthy" <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 'Evening, Alan. > > > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>>> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and > >>>>> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to > >>>>> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!! > >>> No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody. udev-200 > >>> now renames eth0, eth1, .... > > > >> Please please PLEASE, for the love of god joseph mary and every other > >> $DEITY on the planet > > > >> STOP SPREADING THIS FUD > > > >> It did not happen to pretty much everybody. It happened to people who > >> blindly updated thignsd and walked away, who did not read the news > >> announcement, who did not read the CLEARLY WORDED wiki article at > >> freedesktop.org or alternatively went into mod-induced panic and started > >> making shit up in their heads. > > > > Steady on, old chap! By "it" I was meaning the general inconvenience > > all round occasioned by the changes between udev-{197,200}. Not > > everybody encountered this. For example Dale, and Walt D. didn't have > > to do anything. But pretty much everybody else did. > > > > > > I didnt get hit either either, but ("STRONG" hint") ... I use eudev, so > dies Dale and I believe Walt uses mdev. Time for those in server > environments to jump ship? > > It may hit us eventually, but at the moment its :) > > BillK
Well, *my* Gentoo servers are already running mdev... Hmm... doesn't anyone think it's weird that we haven't heard any complaints / horror stories from the Gentoo-server mailing list? Rgds, --