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[Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>]

On Tuesday 30 July 2013 17:38:00 you wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be> wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > The only strange thifindm   ng is that /dev/pts and /dev/shm did not get 
created.
> 
> Would this require some additional init scripts to mount those devs?

maybe
> 
> > ...
> > I will then add this spell as an alternative to udev.
> 
> It reached test already, :-)
> 
> I believe udev 182 conflicts with module-init-tools.  And according to
> the eudev spell, it's a fork of udev 195.  That leads me to believe
> eudev also conflicts with module-init-tools as well.  Therefore it
> also requires basesystem 0.9.6, whereas the current test one is 0.9.5.
> 
> Is that correct?
I don't think so, as eudev has its own internal version of kmod and does not 
need a separate module-init-tools or kmod in order to load modules.
In this case module-init-tools or kmod  merely provide lsmod, depmod and 
friends. modprobe is not needed by eudev itself, although it can be used 
manually.
Linking to an external kmod was dropped by the eudev team as a bad idea, 
although it can optionally be enabled during configure.

# ldd /sbin/udevd
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff372e0000)
        libudev.so.1 => /lib/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fcf798f8000)
        libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0x00007fcf796b0000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcf792f0000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcf79068000)
        /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcf79b20000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fcf78e60000)

In fact I have disabled kmod on one of my systems and all my devices appear, 
except for /dev/pts, even though /etc/init.d/runlevels/%DEV/devices (from 
init.d) runs before udevd.  I suspect some sort of race condition related to 
the kernel constructing an internal device tree, which is later copied to the 
/dev devtmpfs

# findmnt /dev                                                                
TARGET SOURCE   FSTYPE   OPTIONS                                              
                   
/dev   devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=3786908k,nr_inodes=946727,mode=755  
                   

# cat /etc/fstab
proc    /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  defaults        0 0
sysfs   /sys            sysfs   defaults        0 0


Perhaps the /dev/pts is overwritten during the startup phase?
I am trying to get some more debug info on this.


One of my machines has kmod-8, the other kmod-14
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Javier.