During boot since >=sys-fs/udev-072 I receive this: * Setting terminal encoding to ASCII ... udevd[2912]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[2912]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[2918]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[2918]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[2924]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[2924]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[2930]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory ... udevd[3026]: main: uevent socket not available [ ok ] * Setting user font ... udevd[3130]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[3130]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[3137]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[3137]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[3149]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[3149]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[3154]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[3154]: main: uevent socket not available udevd[3161]: init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed, No such file or directory udevd[3161]: main: uevent socket not available No problems with sys-fs/udev-071. emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache collision-protect distlocks keeptemp multilib-strict noauto parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X Xaw3d aac aim alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth buttons bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd dvdread emacs emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnutls gpgme gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hlapi icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 irc jabber java javascript jpeg justify lcms leim libcaca libwww lua lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mng motif mozdevelop mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi msn ncurses new-login nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png python quicktime readline real recode rtc samba scanner sdl sms spell ssl svg symlink tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis wmf xml2 xmms xpm xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
What is the contents of your /etc/udev/udev.conf file?
udev_root="/dev/" udev_db="/dev/.udevdb" udev_rules="/etc/udev/rules.d/" udev_log="yes"
Then this means that udev is working properly. Your line: udev_log="yes" Is causing all udev messages to get logged now (even debug messages like these.) Try changing that to see them go away.
I forgot something *important*, avalancha ~ # udevd avalancha ~ # echo $? 3 avalancha linux # ps aux | grep udev avalancha linux # Dec 31 00:53:09 [udevd] init_uevent_netlink_sock: bind failed: No such file or directory Dec 31 00:53:09 [udevd] main: uevent socket not available That happends since >=sys-fs/udev-072, so there is no udev daemon running on my system since 072. So it doesn't means that is working properly, in fact is not working at all. The problem seems to be the kernel config: CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT in General Setup is not activated, so it's neccesary in order to udev to work. Should the linux_chkconfig_present KOBJECT_UEVEN function from linux-mod eclass be in >=udev-072 ebuilds in order to check a proper kernel config?
No, the build can and will not check for that, as future kernel versions make it all but impossible to not select the proper configuration options.
