Re: [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

[Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>]

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On 01/05/2013 02:53 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time
> to dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one
> machine but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this
> morning. Not a single machine has /dev/cdrom anymore, nor /dev/dvd
> or any of the other incantations that have existed forever.
> 
> First, this is udev doing (or not doing) this, correct?
> 
> As shown below hwinfo see the cdrom drive, and there are long
> existing udev rules that appear to want to create the devices.
> These rules have worked in the past but don't now.
> 
> Are others running Gentoo stable, and in this case udev-171-r9,
> seeing this problem?
> 
> Anyone recognize what's wrong with the udev rules below, or does
> udev no longer generate these devices at all? I understand that
> the 70-persistent-net.rules stuff has been 'removed'. Is this true
> for CDs also or have I botched something up on all these machines?
> 
> Thanks in advance and please ask me to post anything else
> required. I've gone through the latest Gentoo install docs and
> don't see that I'm doing anything other than what they tell me to
> do but with udev in such a state of flux I've obviously missed
> something.

I don't know what the deal with all of this is, but I also noticed
this recently. One thing I did find was that I could find my disks in
/dev/disk, for example Star Wars:

$ ls /dev/disk/by-label/
A_NEW_HOPE

$ equery l udev
 * Searching for udev ...
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udev-171-r9:0
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