i have a USB thumb drive i wanted to create a known symlink for in addition to the other symlinks ... so i added this line to my 10-foo.rules file: KERNEL=="sd*", ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="CBM_Flash_Disk", SYMLINK+="disk/foo" when i insert the drive, i dont get the /dev/disk/foo symlink, just the other /dev/disk/by-id/usb-CBM_Flash_Disk and etc... links if i move 10-foo.rules to 90-foo.rules, it starts working ... i think the relationship here is with 60-persistent-storage.rules ... $ qlist -I -v udev sys-fs/udev-103 Portage 2.1.2_rc4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19.1-grsec x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19.1-grsec x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:50:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.20_alpha2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16-r1, 2.16.1, 2.16.1-r3, 2.16.90.0.3, 2.16.91.0.1, 2.16.91.0.2, 2.16.91.0.3, 2.16.91.0.4, 2.16.91.0.5, 2.16.91.0.6, 2.16.91.0.7, 2.16.92, 2.16.93, 2.16.94, 2.17, 2.17.50.0.2, 2.17.50.0.3, 2.17.50.0.4, 2.17.50.0.5, 2.17.50.0.6, 2.17.50.0.7, 2.17.50.0.8 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration" CHOST="x86_64-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 /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild 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What else can I say than: We cannot do anything about this problem. If you would like to use environment-variables set by 60-persistent-storage.rules your rules should be execute afterwards. If that is a problem, perhaps call documentation-team to write that down somewhere.
