Re: Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

[Anthony DiSante]

Kevin Fries wrote:
> Any ETA on when udev is going to be ready for prime time?  And, any
> clue why Fedora insists on relying on a program that does not f*(&%ing
> work!!!!
>
> I am trying to get a Microtek X12 USL scanner attached, and udev fails
> to mount it, every time.  Has anyone tried uninstalling udev and
> reinstalling devfs to stop all these damn usb failures?
>
> If so, any hints on how not to make your system unstable?
>
> TIA
> Kevin Fries

I haven't gone back to devfs, but I feel your pain.  udev+hal worked fine 
for a couple months, until hald started intermittently locking up.  Now I 
can't go 2 days without a reboot, because hald so often goes into 
"uninterruptible sleep" and is totally unkillable.  I've upgraded udev, hal, 
and my kernel a bunch of times, but nothing has fixed this.  And it's not a 
single piece of hardware; sometimes it's USB, sometimes Firewire, sometimes 
a CDROM, that causes hald to take a nap, permanently.

-Anthony DiSante
http://nodivisions.com/
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