From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: When I plug in my external USB hard drive, I usually get a symlink, /dev/sd?1 pointing to /dev/usbhdd using this udev rule BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="10000E00091DBEC1", KERNEL="sd?1", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="usbhdd" This is in a file called 10-local.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d I am currently seeing this problem with linux 2.6.12-rc4-git6 I think perhaps udev needs an update to work with kernels > 2.6.12-rc4 as noted from this post to lkml by Greg KH http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.2/1368.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-039-10.FC3.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a custom udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules 2. Plug your device in 3. Actual Results: No symlinks were created. Expected Results: A symlink in /dev should have been created. Additional info:
Now that a 2.6.12 kernel update has been put out as an update for FC3 this is somewhat more of an issue. As per the comments above, udev needs to be updated to version 058 to work with this updated kernel. Quote from the link above: "Note, if you are running a kernel newer than 2.6.12-rc4 (including the -mm releases) and you have any custom udev rules, you MUST upgrade to the latest version to allow udev to work properly." I've no choice but to downgrade the kernel again for now. Note that this is not i386 specific (I'm on x86_64) but I can't change that.
FC4 has been on 058 for ages. Is there any reason that can't be recompiled for FC3 and pushed out as an update to close this issue?
well, it would need other packages it depends on... like initscripts, hotplug, mkinitrd, etc... which would require additional packages also... try it
I installed the FC4 udev package onto a fully updated FC3 box (x86_64). Installed fine with no extra requirements. Seems ok. Wasn't able to check the symlink functionality because that machine is already FC4. I guess one reason for not releasing it as an update to FC3 is that it'll break everyone's permissions.d rules, which isn't a good idea for a stable distro update. The functionality all works fine on FC4, so this bug is FC3 only. Maybe a good idea to WONTFIX this one.