[NTLUG:Discuss] .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
Chris Cox
cjcox at acm.org
Wed Oct 14 20:46:41 CDT 2009
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 19:31 -0500, Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> Greetings.
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> A friend of mine is trying to install several packages (including
> ia32-lib), which are all failing with the given error. I have found
> several bugs referring to this, but no fixes or suggestions. Any
> suggestions?
No suggestiong per se....
Devices are really meant to be created dynamically now.
You CAN feed static devices to the dynamic creator of
devices though /lib/udev/devices
MAKEDEV should NOT be used anymore. I'd love to know what
"packages" are trying to call MAKEDEV (directly or indirectly).
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