Todd Zullinger wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: >> Yep, starting udev backup fixed it. > > Oh, glad you worked past my typo (it's udevd -d :). > >> I'd have never thought to check to see if that was not running. > > I learned the hard way after poking a bit when my ipod decides not to > mount automatically. > >> I wonder what caused it to fail? > > That I don't know. I don't think I noticed anything in the logs when > it has died. Do you see anything in yours? > > It doesn't happen often and I've yet to look much at bugzilla to see > if someone else has reported this. I didn't think I had enough info > to file a bug about it. But considering that it clearly happens to > more people than just me, it might be a good idea to see if it's been > reported and report it if not. The maintainer may well have better > ideas for how to debug it and catch what's caused it to die. > > A quick search in bugzilla doesn't lead me to anything obvious, but > there are 47 bugs found for the udev package with udevd in the > comments and I haven't done anything more than peruse the summaries. > Would you have time to peak at some of them and file a bug if none > cover the case of it just dying? If you do, let me know and I'll add > a note confirming that it happens for me sometimes too. :) > > I'll be glad to do so, just as soon as I get home and check out my logs files, at first glance I didn't see anything odd, but I wasn't actively looking for udev messages. I'll keep you posted. -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
