... and I get a similar udev message that started me down this road in the
first place but at least this time it is a little more helpful.  Looks like
I need to run down inotify support now:

Starting udev
<30>udevd[81]: starting version 182
udevd[81]: inotify_init failed: Function not implemented

udevd[81]: error initializing inotify

Regards,

Brian