Description of problem: Booting a kernel without an initrd image reports "MAKEDEV: mkdir: File exists" when running /sbin/start_udev for each time it is invoked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): MAKEDEV-3.23-1.2 udev-116-3.fc8 How reproducible: If /dev has the wrong SELinux context (i.e. not device_t) then anytime you run MAKEDEV -x <devce> (say MAKEDEV -x fuse) you receive the message. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Generate a kernel that does not require an initrd image 2. Boot the new kernel 3. Observer the error messages when start_udev runs. Actual results: Error messages (which does not include the file in error!) Expected results: No error messages Additional info: The real issue here is that /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit runs: /sbin/restorecon -R /dev if /dev is mounted before running /sbin/start_udev, which occurs if booting with a standard initrd image, but if no such image is loaded, /dev is mounted by /sbin/start_udev but no /sbin/restorecon is run. A side-effect of this problem is that a number of the files in /dev also end up with the wrong context if no initrd is loaded.
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