[6946] in testers
Re: prevert.mit.edu: failed Linux 9.4 update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Wed May 4 19:06:13 2005
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 19:06:02 -0400
Message-Id: <200505042306.j44N628k019336@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <200505042119.j44LJJDF005569@pyramids.mit.edu> (message from Greg
Hudson on Wed, 4 May 2005 17:19:20 -0400 (EDT))
>I don't know why anaconda upgrades wouldn't run into the same problem,
>partly because I don't know what's cleaning out /dev.
The postinstall script for udev starts it as soon as it's installed,
preumably being mounted over the the original device directory. It's
tolerant of having devices manually created in it, though, which leads to
some possibilities for temporary workarounds during the install.
