Today, my alpha installed Debian libc6.1-2.13-11, I will try to revert udev
to the original and remove the package hold here.

I will tell if it works!

Uwe

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Uwe Schindler
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-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Schindler [mailto:uwe@thetaphi.de]
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:47 PM
To: 'Bob Tracy'
Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org; linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org;
mattst88@gmail.com; mcree@orcon.net.nz
Subject: RE: recent udev upgrade failure on alpha

Hi Bob,

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(...)
I tried then to upgrade the package "udev" (was on hold, to prevent
me from making system unbootable), with the hope that the inotify is
working with this debian kernel. Unfortunately that's not the case,
UDEV complains about missing inotify.

So is the patch below already included in some kernel images
available? Or does somebody have a recent udev version as .deb

packages?

I still have (and am using) my modified "udev" package
(udev_166-1_alpha.deb: includes the patch you quoted in your original
message).  I can send it your way if you wish.  In truth, the only
thing

you

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need is "/sbin/udevd" from that package to be operational, and I can
send you just that piece if you prefer.  Just let me know.

A patch for udev would be the best (do you have it available as a patch),

then I

can build a custom udev whenever an update occurs. Do you have it
somewhere on the web/dropbox whatever? But /sbin/udev is also a good
choice for now. Maybe send both as attachment to my private mail. THANKS!

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From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614099 it seems
that

this is fixed in glibc 2.13-1, unfortunately on debian-ports is only

2.11.2-13. So

we have to wait until buildds are working :( Maybe I try to compile the

libc

package (hours of waiting included...)

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The underlying problem isn't anything missing in the kernel (at least
when built from the mainline kernel.org source): inotify_init1() is
definitely

there.

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The problem is the userspace call to inotify_init1() in the current
Alpha version of libc6.1 is a stub function.  I elected to rebuild the

"udev"

package

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with a valid workaround rather than risk modifying and having to debug

"libc"

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:-).

I was confused about the whole discussion, thanks for making it clear.

Uwe


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