From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B942B1382EB for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5095921C08F; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0538021C077 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:37:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=LJvkseq9 c=1 sm=0 a=EOV1Bp0aMOLtceF4Vhfd/w==:17 a=G2bVDR4HoroA:10 a=CQgheBun_5YA:10 a=fmvqIKyo3BgA:10 a=it0dK9BTOlwA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=xqWC_Br6kY4A:10 a=PFomCizWAAAA:8 a=6JXSrIuqDTcA:10 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=_CHPpx_wtzMXb2OQAIAA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=EOV1Bp0aMOLtceF4Vhfd/w==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 107.15.26.214 Received: from [107.15.26.214] ([107.15.26.214:51576] helo=skull.electronsweatshop.com) by cdptpa-oedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id B0/89-16644-81F88E05; Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:37:45 +0000 Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:8:97a::1] (scurvy.electronsweatshop.com [IPv6:2001:470:8:97a::1]) by skull.electronsweatshop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA903F93D for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:37:42 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50E88F17.5020707@electronsweatshop.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:37:43 -0500 From: Randy Barlow Organization: electronsweatshop.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121201 Thunderbird/10.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on skull.electronsweatshop.com X-Archives-Salt: 3c5052aa-157a-40ba-b764-253bb7f3ad63 X-Archives-Hash: aca1367999ac118882dd87613d19f5c9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDojxcACgkQw3vjPfF7QfXNxgCff/2kWz4NcPLabU1VSTiKgte7 9jAAnAk5E4htxjm+au/QjOVYGJ6jayIw =7745 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----