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

[Roger Leigh]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:26:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> 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.

This happens in the initramfs.  If /run doesn't exist, /dev/.udev is
used as a fallback.  This should also occur if you don't use an
initramfs and /run is not available when udev starts.

Regards,
Roger

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