From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010622 Description of problem: Compiling a new kernel from rawhide (I have tried 2.4.7-2 and 2.4.7-2.9) and running with devfsd causes a kernel panic. I currently run 2.4.0-0.43.4; I haven't tried anything in between. I have tried many different devfsd versions and sources. I know you no longer include devfsd, but causing a kernel panic is a big problem for something included in the kernel... I think this is a problem with pam, kernel, and devfsd. The crash sometimes goes away if I use the standard /etc/devfsd.conf file. Commenting out all lines (which approaches the way my file is set up) will cause the crash, at least on my computer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile rawhide kernel 2. Install devfsd 3. Reboot. Actual Results: Crash occurs sometime during bootup or user login (not root). Expected Results: No crash... Additional info:
There's a good reason we don't enable devfs.... it is that is rather unstable and has several user (eg non-root) causable oopses. The devfs maintainer knows about these for several months now and it's not fixed yet ;(