Bug#794721: udev_queue_get_udev_is_active API is broken starting in 221-1

[Michael Biebl]

Am 06.08.2015 um 02:05 schrieb Jon:
> Package: udev
> Version: 224-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The udev_queue_get_udev_is_active() API call of libudev is used by
> things like device-mapper to determine if it should wait for udev to settle
> after doing various operations. The catch is that this API call only checks
> whether or not the file /run/udev/control exists.
> 
> Up until udev 221-1, this file was removed by udev on shutdown. Starting
> with 221-1 the file is left behind causing libudev to falsely report to
> device-mapper that udev is running which causes device-mapper to hang
> indefinitely for a notification that will never arrive.

Can you find out, why /run/udev/control is no longer unlinked on
shutdown when being run under sysvinit? Can you pinpoint the change to a
specific commit?


Michael
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