Bug#989057: udev doesn't create /dev/fd symlink

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Tue, 25 May 2021, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 24 May 2021, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> > Am 24.05.2021 um 23:05 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > > > With systemd, the virtual machine doesn't boot at all:
> > 
> > Can you share how you created the vm and how you run the vm?
> > So we might have a chance to reproduce the issue.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Michael
> 
> I installed it as debian sid amd64. I added foreign architectures i386, 
> x32 and riscv64. I changed gcc and some other programs from amd64 to x32. 
> (x32 is a few percent faster than amd64)
> 
> The virtual machine is running on a host with two Opterons 8435. I checked 
> the checkbox "Copy host CPU configuration" in virt-manager.
> 
> Mikulas

I don't know why, but after further testing, the virtual machine didn't 
lock-up and it dropped into emergency shell (because /sys/kernel/config 
could not be mounted) and the symlink /dev/fd was there.

Whose responsibility is to create the /dev/fd symlink? udev? sysvinit? 
systemd?

Mikulas