/etc/mdev.conf being installed supposes that system group 'dialout' exist but it's not by default in gentoo and this situation gives me these errors while booting: * Populating /dev with existing devices with mdev -s ... mdev: unknown user/group 'root:dialout' on line 79 mdev: unknown user/group 'root:dialout' on line 80 mdev: unknown user/group 'root:dialout' on line 81 mdev: unknown user/group 'root:dialout' on line 82 mdev: unknown user/group 'root:dialout' on line 112 mdev: unknown user/group 'root:dialout' on line 113
Bug 454556 and Bug 463376, and so forth As in, mdev should be forced to use group 'uucp' instead of 'dialout', propably by simple sed like... sed -i -e 's:dialout:uucp:' <filename_in_the_mdev_source_tree> ...in the ebuild's src_prepare()
When I do the next release of baselayout, it will have a dialout group instead of uucp, so I don't know that this is a good idea.
This is obsolete. There is a dialout group now.