Bug 124913 – udev 079-r1 - sound devices missing

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bastiaan Stougie 2006-03-04 01:53:54 UTC]

Every time my system boots, /etc/init.d/alsasound loads the sound modules after udev has already been started by /sbin/rc. This leads to missing sound device nodes (/dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, etc).

I have added a call to udevstart at the end of load_modules() in /etc/init.d/alsasound and everything works now.

I think a call to udevstart should be included in load_modules() if udev is installed and used.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-03-04 02:00:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I think a call to udevstart should be included in load_modules() if udev is
> installed and used.

No, alsa definitely should't be starting udev. Is udevd running? Also, udev version missing, alsa version missing...

[Comment 2 Bastiaan Stougie 2006-03-04 02:04:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > I think a call to udevstart should be included in load_modules() if udev is
> > installed and used.
> 
> No, alsa definitely should't be starting udev. Is udevd running? Also, udev
> version missing, alsa version missing...
> 

media-sound/alsa-utils 1.0.10
sys-fs/udev 079-r1

# ps -ef|grep udevd
root      2836     1  0 10:36 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon

[Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2006-03-04 08:57:09 UTC]

what kernel version are you using?

udevstart is _not_ to be used by newer kernels.

[Comment 4 Joshua (RETIRED) 2006-03-05 00:20:03 UTC]

I had kernel 2.6.11.11 and that had the problem.  Upgrading to 2.6.15.1 fixed the issue.

[Comment 5 Bastiaan Stougie 2006-03-05 00:36:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> what kernel version are you using?
> 
> udevstart is _not_ to be used by newer kernels.
> 

2.6.10, I'll try to upgrade it.

[Comment 6 Jonas Berlin 2006-03-23 00:14:21 UTC]

I have 2.6.11.6 and the same problem. Running udevstart manually worked for me too as a quick fix.. when I did /etc/init.d/alsasound restart the devices disappeared again..

Then I downgraded to udev-070-r1 and everything now works as expected again..

My friend told me that the kernel interface in udev changes a lot between versions, could it be that 079 just isn't meant to be used with 2.6.11 kernels? I can only hope you keep this udev-070-r1 ebuild around (or fix the newer ones if that is the correct solution) until I am able to upgrade the kernel..

Thanks,
  Jonas

[Comment 7 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2006-04-03 10:05:22 UTC]

the problem might be 2.6.11, and as that's not a kernel that we are supporting
anymore, I really don't know.

Please upgrade (for the security fixes alone.)

Am marking this closed.  If you still have this issue using 2.6.15, or 2.6.16,
please reopen this.