I have found that the problem lies in the udev package, which has
/lib/udev/devices/null
set to the wrong permission.
Just change the permission of this file to a+rw and at the next boot
/dev/null
will have the same permission.
Daniel
On 9/20/06, Jimmy the shoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I
Just for those meeting this problem, here is my procedure to login.
A better one would be to find which script sets /dev/null to crw-- just
after boot!
After booting, when the login screen appears, I type Alt+Ctrl+F1 to get a
console.
Then I login as user and:
$ sudo chmod a+rw /dev/null
Dapper 6.06: on a Dell Latitude D600 I can well hibernate once,
but not twice. On the second attempt the system just doesn't
start to hibernate.
For a laptop I consider this as a major problem because a laptop
is often used (e.g. on travel) for short moments between which
one doesn't want t
Public bug reported:
I met twice the situation that Kubuntu dapper sets /dev/null to
permission
Crw---
so when starting X for example the script fails because somewhere
permission to write on /dev/null is required.
The problem is fixed if root sets the permission to
chmod a+rw /dev/nul
