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Bug 215333

Summary: /dev/root perms
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Kevin Baker <kbaker>
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Version: 5.1CC: agt, ddumas, ian, ineilsen, mishu
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Description Christopher McCrory 2006-11-13 16:01:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
/dev/root perms prevent backups

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

udev-095-8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  install RHEL5-beta1
2.  try to access /dev/root with amanda ( backup )
3.
  
Actual results:
fails

Expected results:
works

Additional info:

seems same issue as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162686
Comment 1 Christopher McCrory 2007-01-11 01:25:59 UTC 
move to beta2

any word on a fix for this?
Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2007-01-11 11:05:39 UTC 
$ find /sys/ -name root | wc -l
0

/dev/root is created with MAKEDEV
Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2007-01-11 11:07:49 UTC 
oops, wrong.. hmm.. it's already there from initrd
Comment 4 Christopher McCrory 2007-03-29 18:24:47 UTC 
changing severity to high as not being able to do backups is bad.
Comment 5 Matthew Saltzman 2007-06-14 02:40:17 UTC 
See also bug #162686.
Comment 6 Christopher McCrory 2007-12-07 21:46:46 UTC 
Was this fixed in RHEL 5.1 ?