73530 – udev fails to initialize /dev/mapper and /dev/mapper/control

Bug 73530 - udev fails to initialize /dev/mapper and /dev/mapper/control

Summary: udev fails to initialize /dev/mapper and /dev/mapper/control

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-12-06 00:09 UTC by postmodern
Modified:	2004-12-09 01:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description postmodern 2004-12-06 00:09:22 UTC

udev fails to initialize /dev/mapper and /dev/mapper/control which denies one access to all device mapping under udev.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge udev device-mapper
2. modprobe dm-mod
3. ls -laR /dev/mapper
4. mkdir /dev/mapper
5. repeat steps 1-3

Actual Results:  
File not found. After creating /dev/mapper still nothing is found inside of it.

Expected Results:  
/dev/mapper and /dev/mapper/control are created when dm-mod is loaded into the
kernel.

Comment 1 postmodern 2004-12-09 01:41:58 UTC

Found the issue. One needs to set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc as described in the Gentoo UDEV guide. Sorry about the false bug report, hope this might inform others having the same issue.