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

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Sat Aug 30 02:16:38 EDT 2008


Am Samstag 30 August 2008 schrieb 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" ?
the storage group was fro removable disks, example are portable usbdisks or 
something like that

greetings
tpowa

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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