[clue-tech] help with udev on Debian

[Angelo Bertolli]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>
>> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> I tried using dpkg to remove udev and hal and then reinstall.  No good.
>>
>>
>> If you can't get it installed correctly it probably won't work.  But 
>> all the files you're missing are part of the package so you should 
>> try to figure out why it won't install.
>>
>> Removing udev is awkward since linux-image depends on it 
>> (indirectly). I wouldn't recommend forcing it.  What does apt say if 
>> you reinstall (apt-get --reinstall install udev)?
>
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not 
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/256kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
> (Reading database ... 109554 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace udev 0.093-1 (using 
> .../archives/udev_0.093-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement udev ...
> Setting up udev (0.093-1) ...
>
> You're right, those files are in the package.
>
>> I don't have hal and the packages that depend on it aren't very 
>> interesting.  Can you just remove it?
>
> Sure I can for now at least.  I wanted to be able to "suspend" or put 
> on "standby" through the gnome interface, and gnome-power-manager 
> depends on hal.  But actually, it didn't give me an option to standby 
> anyway from any of the screens I could tell.  So I'll just take it off.

Well turns out that simply copying the files back to their original 
places doesn't work, and the system is so unbootable, it can't even 
mount the root filesystem.  Oh well, guess I'll spend less time 
reinstalling than fighting this.

Angelo