Bug 519938

Summary:	sys-apps/busybox[mdev] should replace "dialout" group with "uucp"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	cyberbat <cyberbat83>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Embedded Gentoo Team <embedded>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description cyberbat 2014-08-14 21:04:41 UTC

/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

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-08-15 07:54:16 UTC

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()

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2014-12-30 19:32:42 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Viorel Munteanu gentoo-dev

2022-04-21 19:14:48 UTC

This is obsolete.  There is a dialout group now.