On Friday 10 August 2007 16:39, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> You seem to assume that if something works or does not work > >> on your system the same must be true on every system in the world. > > > > As someone who opposed blaming udev I need to reply. It is true that > > with the previous udev 113-8 no /dev/lp* files were formed.. With > > udev-133-9 your get them. Which itself is strange on my machine without > > a parallel port. > > I simply observed that I have had no problem printing > through a parallel port, > though I "yum update" the machine more or less daily. > > I may have been using a compiled kernel, if that is relevant. > > -- > Timothy Murphy The only thing I see here, is if you have you have your machine running 24/7, or shut it down at night. For example. You boot the machine using the udev version that was ok. then you do an update, and install the dodgy/defective udev. The new udev won't make any changes to the parallel devices being created in /dev unless you reboot. The machine is still up and running, and 2 or 3 days later a new update for udev arrives, which fixes the parallel port problem in /dev. As your machine has been running continuously you have not seen the problem caused by the faulty udev update. Your machine now has installed the revised udev package, which is again able to create devices for the parallel port, and therefore the printer is running oblivious to the fact that a udev update (the dodgy one) could have sent it out to lunch. Just some thoughts. Nigel.
