udev and the case of the missing /dev directory..

[Dwaine Garden]

Mickey Stein wrote:

>>
>>
>> hanks for the notes Mickey ... Hopefully this will help Dwaine.  Over 
>> the couse of FC3T1 I've tripped on udev a time or two and the "been 
>> there, done that" commentary is quite a interesting!
>>
>> I didn't see a bugzilla entry with your name, which one are you 
>> referring to?
>>
>> Regards, Mike Klinke
>>
> Sorry Mike, I forgot to paste it in, and its not my bug orininally, 
> but I might be the only person interested in it at the moment ;)
>
> URL:
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> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116485
>
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> This isn't quite the same thing, but its a problem where "udev vc" 
> takes on a life of it's own, eating up cpu and process slots, etc. 
> I've emailed Greg KH from the kernel list about it and it appears to 
> be something happening more and more. Not really related to the 
> problem at heart in not having device entries, but one you *might* 
> have with a little more bad luck after this one is fixed. The good 
> news is that I've a workaround in case you get the problem in the bug.
>
> Mick
>
>
>
It looks like I have the same problem as the bug.   I'm going to turn 
off HAL and see what happens.

I remember having the same problem with sysfs.

Most likely it's a race between HAL and udev.  8*(


Thanks to everyone for helping...

Dwaine.