On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 15:24, Gabor Z. Papp <gzp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * "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) = ?
Ah, seems inotify headers from glibc have been not available during
compilation of udev, and inotify got disabled. You can safely ignore
the misleading error message, I fixed the message for the next
version.
Thanks,
Kay
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