On 2008-10-09, Simon Sibbez wrote:
> cos the udevd symlinks in /sbin/ were gone, only the executables were
> present. needless to say the system didn't boot and had me jumping
> thru loops. offending package a/udev-128-i486-1.tgz


mv /etc/rc.d/rc.udev.new /etc/rc.d/rc.udev

For future reference, you simply *must* keep up to date with config
file changes and such when tracking -current. You might consider
doing: find /etc -name "*.new" -print

-RW

Simon Sibbez wrote:
> needless to say the system didn't boot and had me jumping
> thru loops. offending package a/udev-128-i486-1.tgz
>
> please, dont scare me that way ever again.

If you have an important production server that you depend upon it might
not be such a good idea to run current. Unless you want to be a beta
tester you should stick to a stable version of Slackware.

regards Henrik
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Robby Workman wrote:

> On 2008-10-09, Simon Sibbez wrote:
>> cos the udevd symlinks in /sbin/ were gone, only the executables
>> were present. needless to say the system didn't boot and had me
>> jumping thru loops. offending package a/udev-128-i486-1.tgz
>
>
> mv /etc/rc.d/rc.udev.new /etc/rc.d/rc.udev

*sigh*

Yes, I did that in the meantime. I'm (too) used to hunting new config
files while upgrading whole systems to a (new) stable version. Old
habits are seldom named Bruce (sorry for the pun).

Otoh, with udev128 and the "classic" symlinks the stuff works and even
warns in logs (which I check waaay more thoroughly than checking for
*.new pitfalls, obviously).

udevadm[2901]: the program '/bin/bash' called '/sbin/udevtrigger', it
should use 'udevadm trigger ', this will stop working in a
future release

Haven't had time to test how udev130 reacts to the symlink fun.


> For future reference, you simply *must* keep up to date with config
> file changes and such when tracking -current. You might consider
> doing: find /etc -name "*.new" -print

Yeah, I know the drill, but that one slapped me.

S.