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On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:44:19AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 23/02/2013 19:18, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo! |
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> > Just built the new kernel 3.7.9 last night, and it's one of these |
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> > "nothing works" situations. |
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Sorry, I was exaggerating here. I can work normally as long as I don't |
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try to use a peripheral, such as printer, audio, or scanner. My network |
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connection is working OK. |
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> > It seems the problems are with the device files, whose ownership is set |
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> > to "root root" (rather than, e.g., "root audio") and whose permissions |
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> > are set to crw------- (rather than the expected crw-rw----). |
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> > I'm still running udev-171-r10. This might well make a difference. |
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> > Needless to say, everything works under kernel 3.6.11. It would be nice |
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> > if there were some mistake in my kernel config. |
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> > Could somebody help me get this fixed, please. |
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> udev sets ownership and permissions on devices nodes, not the kernel. |
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> I'd guess your udev setup is incompatible with 3.7.* so let's start with |
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> the usual: |
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> What is your kernel config for the various TMPFS settings in the kernel? |
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> (grep TMPFS in .config) |
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CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y |
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CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y |
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CONFIG_TMPFS=y |
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CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y |
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CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y |
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> What mount options apply to /dev? |
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On my (working) 3.6.11: |
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devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1988792k,nr_inodes=497198,mode=755) |
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On my (non-working) 3.7.9: |
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devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1988680k,nr_inodes=497170,mode=755) |
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> Contents of /etc/fstab? |
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(Leading comments have been removed.) |
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#/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/md6 / ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 |
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/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 |
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#/dev/mapper/vg-usr /usr ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-usrportage /usr/portage ext2 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-usrportagedistfiles /usr/portage/distfiles ext2 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-usrsrc /usr/src ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-home /home ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-opt /opt ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-var /var ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-varspoolmail /var/spool/mail ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-varspoolnews /var/spool/news reiserfs noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-vardbpkg /var/db/pkg ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-iso /iso ext2 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-old /old ext2 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/mapper/vg-vg--backup /backup ext2 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 |
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/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 |
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# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for |
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# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). |
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# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will |
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# use almost no memory if not populated with files) |
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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> USE flags that apply to udev? |
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[ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-171-r10 |
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USE="gudev hwdb introspection keymap rule_generator |
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-action_modeswitch -build -debug -edd (-extras) -floppy (-selinux) {-test}" |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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