Bugzilla Bug 190375

After upgrade to udev 115, it gives an error when booting up the operating
system. It says that the file or directory write_root_link_rule does not exist.
The call to this directory is made in line 207 of the udev-start.sh.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgarde to udev 115
2.Reboot system




emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.3.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_rc2
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p25
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en pl uk"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dfx 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa
amr amrnb amrr amrwb arts automount berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts branding bzip2
cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups daap dga
directfb divx dri dts dv dvd dvdnav enca fax fbcon ffmpeg flac font-server
fontconfig fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif glitz gmail gmedia gpg2-experimental
gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv icq imagemagick ipod ipv6 isdnlog java javascript
jpeg jpeg2k kde lame libcaca live lzo mad matroska matrox md5sum midi mjpeg
mmap mmx mmxext mng modplug motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn
mtp mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses neXt net netbeans netboot
network network-cron networking nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntp nvidia nvram
nvtv ogg openal opengl openmp openssh pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl pic player
plotutils plugins png pppd pulseaudio python qt-static qt3 qt3support qt4
quicktime radio rar readline real realmedia reflection rtc samba scanner
session slang speex spl sql sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg svga tcpd tetex
tga theora threads tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vcd
vidix vorbis wav wavpack wifi win32codecs wma wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xanim
xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en pl uk" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv
vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

How's that file non-existant?

# equery f udev | grep /lib/udev
/lib/udev
/lib/udev/ata_id
/lib/udev/cdrom_id
/lib/udev/create_floppy_devices
/lib/udev/devices
/lib/udev/devices/.keep_sys-fs_udev-0
/lib/udev/edd_id
/lib/udev/firmware.sh
/lib/udev/get_dir_major_minor
/lib/udev/modprobe.sh
/lib/udev/move_tmp_persistent_rules.sh
/lib/udev/net.sh
/lib/udev/path_id
/lib/udev/rule_generator.functions
/lib/udev/scsi_id
/lib/udev/state
/lib/udev/state/.keep_sys-fs_udev-0
/lib/udev/usb_id
/lib/udev/vol_id
/lib/udev/write_cd_rules
/lib/udev/write_net_rules
/lib/udev/write_root_link_rule

# file /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule
/lib/udev/write_root_link_rule: Bourne shell script text executable

> app-shells/bash:     3.2_p25

You are using a *broken* hardmasked bash version; downgrade your bash ASAP and
re-emerge udev after you've done this.

(In reply to comment #2)
> > app-shells/bash:     3.2_p25
> 
> You are using a *broken* hardmasked bash version; downgrade your bash ASAP and
> re-emerge udev after you've done this.
> 

Thank you very much! I apologise for wasting your time on something silly like
this.

Let's dupe this one; thanks for reporting back.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 190128 ***