* "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>: | If you do: | killall udevd | strace /sbin/udevd | /sbin/udevd --daemon | What does the strace print while udevd is the inotify calls? It looks | like this here: | ... | inotify_init() = 3 | inotify_add_watch(3, "/lib/udev/rules.d", ...) = 1 | inotify_add_watch(3, "/etc/udev/rules.d", ...) = 2 | inotify_add_watch(3, "/dev/.udev/rules.d", ...) = 3 | ... [...] unlink("/dev/.udev/uevent_seqnum") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/dev/.udev/queue", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 8 read(8, "1791\n", 31) = 5 close(8) = 0 stat64("/dev/.udev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=100, ...}) = 0 open("/dev/.udev/uevent_seqnum", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 8 write(8, "1791\n", 5) = 5 close(8) = 0 fork() = 2025 close(6) = 0 close(7) = 0 close(4) = 0 close(5) = 0 unlink("/dev/.udev/uevent_seqnum") = 0 open("/dev/.udev/queue", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [2025] main: inotify_init failed: No such file or directory exit_group(0) = ? ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html