Bug 376727

Summary:	sys-apps/openrc-0.8.3 rc.log will not capture udevadm errors at early bootup stage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vladimir Berezhnoy <non7top>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	bug, pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	sample udev rule

Description Vladimir Berezhnoy 2011-07-28 13:05:21 UTC

This is what I have in rc.log

 * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ...
 [ ok ]
 * Waiting for uevents to be processed ...
 [ ok ]
 * Mounting /dev/shm ...
 [ ok ]


But during boot I see three errors after "Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents" and after "Waiting for uevents to be processed:" from udevd claiming that file which start with /usr are not available.

Later I see errors from other services, which are captured in log correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install either media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1 or net-wireless/bluez-4.94-r1
2. use separate /usr partition
3. enable logging in rc.conf 
4. Errors will be produced during early bootup from udevd, but none of them will be captured in rc.log

Comment 1 Vladimir Berezhnoy 2011-07-28 13:06:46 UTC

Created attachment 281263 [details]
sample udev rule

Another udev rule which will produce errors during bootup, but none of them are captured in rc.log

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2011-07-31 19:58:22 UTC

Please note the following comments in rc.conf:

# rc_logger launches a logging daemon to log the entire rc process to
# /var/log/rc.log
# NOTE: Linux systems require the devfs service to be started before
# logging can take place and as such cannot log the sysinit runlevel.

Udev is currently started in the sysinit runlevel, so it cannot be
logged. The errors you are describing sound like they may be fixed by
bug #364235, so you might want to watch that bug.