Re: Is there an auto-config script for udev?

[Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Hugh Esco wrote:

> Last week I built Debian Sarge on a Toshiba notebook.  Only
> when the client was picking up the machine did he mention
> his USB printer and camera.  Now I'm debugging an
> incomplete installation of udev across a phone
> conversation.  

What makes you think the installation is incomplete?

> dpkg -l indicates that udev (and hotplug) are both
> installed.

Which would tend to indicate the installation _was_ completed.

>  But the /dev tree is empty and none of the
> devices he needs to run his printer are available.  

None of those entries are part of the udev installation; they are
created at runtime.  In particular, none of the printer device nodes
will be present until the printer is plugged in.

Do you literally mean that /dev is empty?  I didn't think you could get 
a usable system without at least a few entries in there...

> I'm thinking I must have missed an error along the way.
> Why would udev install w/o building the device nodes?  

Because the device nodes are built when udev runs, not when udev is 
installed.

> And more importantly, what can I do to ask my client to
> build these hopefully without him having to bring it back
> in to my network for a re-install.

Try asking the client to plug in his printer.  Is udevd running?

>  Is there some
> configuration script I missed running I can guide him
> through? 

I don't know how Debian works.  In Fedora, the initial entries in /dev are
generated and udevd is started by an initrd script.  Maybe something along
those lines is going wrong.

Alan Stern


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