[clue-tech] help with udev on Debian

[Angelo Bertolli]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>>> I tried to reinstall udev on one of my machines.  Good thing is, I 
>>> moved the config files instead of deleting them, but I wanted to 
>>> know if anyone here could tell me how to recreate appropriate stuff 
>>> for /etc/udev based on my current machine rather than my old config 
>>> files.  By the way, I seem to also be missing the init.d udev script 
>>> (is it needed)
>>
>> I didn't configure udev, it just works.  What makes you think yours 
>> needs configuring (be specific)?
> After I did this, I don't have /dev/input/mice anymore, and X won't 
> start.  Also, I think that at the very LEAST something for udev needs 
> to be in /etc/init.d/
>
>> init.d/udev is in the udev package so if you installed the package 
>> and didn't get the script maybe you should investigate the package's 
>> state and what happened to the install.
> Hmmm, not sure where to start.  I just used apt to reinstall from 
> ftp.debian.org testing.
>
I tried using dpkg to remove udev and hal and then reinstall.  No good.

Old and new udev directories:

/etc/udev.bk/
|-- alsa-utils.rules
|-- cd-aliases-generator.rules
|-- cd-aliases.rules
|-- compat-full.rules
|-- compat.rules
|-- devfs.rules
|-- hal.rules
|-- hdparm.rules
|-- hotplug.rules
|-- hotplugd.rules
|-- libgphoto2.rules
|-- libsane-extras.rules
|-- libsane.rules
|-- links.conf
|-- permissions.rules
|-- persistent-input.rules
|-- persistent-net-generator.rules
|-- persistent.rules
|-- rules.d
|   |-- 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules
|   |-- 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules
|   |-- 025_libsane-extras.rules -> ../libsane-extras.rules
|   |-- 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules
|   |-- 050_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules
|   |-- cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules
|   |-- udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
|   |-- z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules
|   |-- z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules
|   |-- z25_persistent-net.rules
|   |-- z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> 
../persistent-net-generator.rules
|   |-- z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
|   |-- z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules
|   |-- z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules
|   |-- z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules
|   |-- z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules -> 
../xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
|   `-- z70_hotplugd.rules -> ../hotplugd.rules
|-- run.rules
|-- udev.conf
|-- udev.rules
`-- xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules



1 directory, 39 files
angelo at pascal:~$ tree /etc/udev
/etc/udev
`-- rules.d
    `-- 050_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules