[arch-dev-public] Risky business: udev upgrade

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>  I tried udev-126-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz. My machine still booted fine. The only
> problem that I noticed is that the /dev/sg0  device that it creates for my
> external USB DVD/CD-RW doesn't have the write permission for the optical
> group:
> $ ls -l /dev/sg0
> crw-r----- 1 root optical 21, 0 2008-08-29 18:42 /dev/sg0
>
>
> The permissions for sr0 are correct though:
> $ ls -l /dev/sr0
> brw-rw---- 1 root optical 11, 0 2008-08-29 18:42 /dev/sr0

This should be easy to fix, just a matter of adding it to the patch

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I am not even sure this is a problem with udev or if I did
> something wrong, but the "auto-mount feature" of gnome apparently
> stopped working after this upgrade.
> But the system boot fines, the external usb disk is still properly
> detected is dmesg, the correct devices are created and with the proper
> permissions :
> brw-rw---- 1 root storage 8, 16 août 30 00:32 /dev/sdb
> brw-rw---- 1 root storage 8, 17 août 30 00:32 /dev/sdb1
>
> And I can still mount it manually just fine. Just the automatic mount
> stopped working.

Hmm, the "storage" group seems a tad odd.... shouldn't it be "disk" ?