[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#677097: Two further information points

[Alan Chandler]

I have been pursuing the thought that udevd is trying to write to 
/dev/.udev after its been moved to /run/udev, however I haven't found a 
good testing regime.  I have been trying to figure out how /dev/.udev 
gets created (so it can be moved to /run/udev) but so far failed.  The 
only possible explanation I could find was in /sbin/MAKEDEV, but I don't 
have that file on my system.

However a couple of possibly important pieces of information

1) If I start up in recovery mode, I still get all the "Failed to write 
to queue file" messages, but I can log in with my usb keyboard.  However 
if I start up in normal mode, when I get to gdm the keyboard and mouse 
are dead (but in X of course).

2) I experimented with with making udev depend upon $local_fs.  It 
didn't prevent the problem, nor did it help with locked keyboard and 
mouse.  However when I logged in to gnome3, it was effectively dead.  
The mouse had no effect when moved into the top right corner.  This 
might have been co-incidence (I have noticed gnome3 susceptible to this 
if I do it too quickly after startup) so I repeated it and the fault was 
there the very next run.  I then edited out the dependency in recovery 
mode and restarted.  Gnome3 started.


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk