Bug 132103 - MAKEDEV attempts to do something which is not asked to do
Summary: MAKEDEV attempts to do something which is not asked to do
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 131776
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: MAKEDEV
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-08 19:59 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:05:31 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2004-09-08 19:59:52 UTC
Description of problem:

While booting with UDEV_TMPFS=yes and selinux=0 I am getting
on a screen:

Making extra nodes:  MAKEDEV: /dev/fd0: unable to reset file creation
context
MAKEDEV: /dev/fd1: unable to reset file creation context
.....  (long list skipped ) .....
MAKEDEV: /dev/net/tun: unable to reset file creation context
MAKEDEV: /dev/nvidiactl: unable to reset file creation context

What "file creation context"?  I have not only selinux=0 in
kernel boot parameters but even SELINUX=disabled in
/etc/sysconfig/selinux.  While I do not know what would happen
if I would enable these in the current situation MAKEDEV
definitely should not complain.

A sort of a nasty workaround here is to do in /sbin/start_udev

     make_extra_nodes >/dev/null 2>&1 && .....

instead of the current

     make_extra_nodes && .....

but this would not help at all with later MAKEDEV invocations.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
MAKEDEV-3.11-1

How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-09-08 21:33:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131776 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:05:31 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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