Bug#908796: udev (with sysvinit) fails to find devices at boot

[Trek]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:21:43 -0800
Bill Brelsford <wb at k2di.net> wrote:

> I'm still using version 1.19.2+test2 of dpkg, but without udev's
> --wait-daemon argument.  The next dpkg (1.19.3) will handle
> --wait-daemon; I assume including it in udev will fix the problem..?

these are two independent ways to fix the same issue:
1. modified dpkg to use start-stop-daemon with --notify-await parameter
2. modified udev to use udevadm trigger with --wait-daemon parameter

actually I don't know if the dpkg will be released with these
modifications in time for buster release

thanks to the work done by Michael Biebl, udev developers added the
--wait-daemon parameter


> Unfortunately, I'm not set up to re-compile so can't test your
> patches.

I can provide you a binary package with these patches applied, but it's
not a good security practice to install a package, that runs as root, if
it does not come from the package maintainers


if you want try to patch and compile yourself, you should type as root:

  apt install build-essential fakeroot

  echo 'deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main' \
    >>/etc/apt/sources.list

  apt-get update

  LANG=C apt-get -s build-dep systemd | \
    sed '/^ /!bA;H;$bA;d;:A;x;/The following NEW/!d;s/^The .*:\n//' \
    >>/root/build-packages.txt

  apt-get build-dep systemd


then as a normal user, download the attached patch into your home
directory and type:

  mkdir ~/debian

  cd ~/debian

  apt-get source systemd

  cd systemd-240

  patch -p1 <~/udev-wait-daemon-full.patch

  dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us


finally you can install the binary package and remove the development
packages, as root:

  dpkg -i /home/user/debian/udev_240-4_i386.deb

  apt-get purge $(cat /root/build-packages.txt)

  apt-get purge build-essential fakeroot


for more info see https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial

thanks for your time!
ciao
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