Bug#790561: After upgrading udev from 215-18 to 220-7 or 221-1, the system is unbootable afterwards

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Am Di den 30. Jun 2015 um 19:14 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
> Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> writes:
> > In the past the udev package IIRC checked for such issues in preinst
> > and refused to upgrade if it found newly required configurations not
> > being present.
> >
> > Any reason why this hasn't been done in this case?
> 
> udev.preinst looks like it tries to do so (check_kernel_features), but
> it depends on several factors:
> 
>  - /proc/kallsyms needs to be present for the symbols check. This might
>    not be enabled on custom kernels.

It is enabled in my case. I have a populated /proc/kallsyms.

>  - udev must be active

It is. (Is it even possible to run debian without active udev?)

> There is even a check for CONFIG_FHANDLE:
> 
>     - open_by_handle_at(2)  (CONFIG_FHANDLE)
> 
> But I wouldn't trust it too much; after all this check is probably not
> the most tested part of the package...

That might be as it seems to not working.

Regards
   Klaus
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