Re: Kubuntu's udev broken with 2.6.18-rc2-mm1

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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:56:55 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:46:08 -0400
> Andrew James Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Some change between -rc1-mm2 and -rc2-mm1 broke Kubuntu's udev
> > (079-0ubuntu34). In particular /dev/mem went missing, and /dev/null had
> > bogus permissions (crw-------). I've kludged around the problem by
> > populating /lib/udev/devices from a good /dev, but I'm assuming the
> > breakage was unintentional.
> > 
> 
> /dev/null damage is due to a combination of vdso-hash-style-fix.patch and
> doing the kernel build as root (don't do that).

Hmm... I thought the vdso-hash whoops caused /dev/null to get removed and
thus recreated as a regular file - Andrew Wade is showing it as being
mode 600 - but still a 'char special'?

Or did udev get there before somebody managed to recreate it, and it
stuck funky permissions on it?

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