After upgrade to udev 115, it gives an error when booting up the operating system. It says that the file or directory write_root_link_rule does not exist. The call to this directory is made in line 207 of the udev-start.sh. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgarde to udev 115 2.Reboot system emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_rc2 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p25 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-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" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en pl uk" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa amr amrnb amrr amrwb arts automount berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups daap dga directfb divx dri dts dv dvd dvdnav enca fax fbcon ffmpeg flac font-server fontconfig fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif glitz gmail gmedia gpg2-experimental gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv icq imagemagick ipod ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde lame libcaca live lzo mad matroska matrox md5sum midi mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng modplug motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn mtp mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql nas ncurses neXt net netbeans netboot network network-cron networking nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntp nvidia nvram nvtv ogg openal opengl openmp openssh pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl pic player plotutils plugins png pppd pulseaudio python qt-static qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio rar readline real realmedia reflection rtc samba scanner session slang speex spl sql sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg svga tcpd tetex tga theora threads tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vorbis wav wavpack wifi win32codecs wma wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en pl uk" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
How's that file non-existant? # equery f udev | grep /lib/udev /lib/udev /lib/udev/ata_id /lib/udev/cdrom_id /lib/udev/create_floppy_devices /lib/udev/devices /lib/udev/devices/.keep_sys-fs_udev-0 /lib/udev/edd_id /lib/udev/firmware.sh /lib/udev/get_dir_major_minor /lib/udev/modprobe.sh /lib/udev/move_tmp_persistent_rules.sh /lib/udev/net.sh /lib/udev/path_id /lib/udev/rule_generator.functions /lib/udev/scsi_id /lib/udev/state /lib/udev/state/.keep_sys-fs_udev-0 /lib/udev/usb_id /lib/udev/vol_id /lib/udev/write_cd_rules /lib/udev/write_net_rules /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule # file /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule: Bourne shell script text executable
> app-shells/bash: 3.2_p25 You are using a *broken* hardmasked bash version; downgrade your bash ASAP and re-emerge udev after you've done this.
(In reply to comment #2) > > app-shells/bash: 3.2_p25 > > You are using a *broken* hardmasked bash version; downgrade your bash ASAP and > re-emerge udev after you've done this. > Thank you very much! I apologise for wasting your time on something silly like this.
Let's dupe this one; thanks for reporting back.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 190128 ***
