From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Tracy Subject: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:02:03 -0600 Message-ID: <20110224070203.GA28419@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, mattst88@gmail.com, mcree@orcon.net.nz Well... Yes, "sid" is cantankerous and known to occasionally break working systems, but this is the first time the thermonuclear software upgrade option has been used effectively on my poor Alpha :-(. Specifically, I've got about 50 installed but unconfigured packages and an almost unbootable (single-user mode only) machine because udev 166-1 absolutely requires inotify support, and it doesn't seems to be present in spite of "CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y" being set in all the kernels I've got installed on my system. Running "dpkg --configure udev" gives me the following: udevd[pid]: inotify_init failed: Function not implemented udevd[pid]: error initializing inotify and the post-installation script fails. So... What's missing or unimplemented on Alpha? Prior versions of "udev" worked just fine. As far as recovery options, I'm open to suggestions including selective downgrading of packages, but "dependency hell" may make that option unworkable from a practical standpoint. I'd rather go forward. Current system state: running in single-user mode with a static /dev, and I *do* have network connectivity for transferring stuff in/out as needed. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit rct@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------