aru Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 MandrakeSoft Bugfix Advisory MDKA-2003:007 : devfsd May 1st, 2003 Updated devfsd packages fix multiple bugs A problem in devfsd as released with Mandrake Linux 9.1 allowed users to mount filesystems from rd raid disks, but prevented them from regenerating the LILO mbr. Devfsd provides compatibility links on the devfs filesystem for new device names, and for /dev/rd/* devices, it provided partition links and whole disk links. The latter were broken, but not the former. Because of this, mounting would work because the filesystem links were correct, but running lilo would fail because the disk links were broken. This new devfsd corrects the problem, however users will have to manually remove the broken links otherwise devfsd will "remember" the old, broken links. To do this, execute, as root: rm -rf /lib/dev-state/rd This update also fixes /dev/hd not appearing for root on the first login, and also a minilogd/initlog deadlock that sometimes appears during the bootstrap. The /dev/log entry is created by the log daemon, but devfsd may restore it on bootup making minilogd believe that the log daemon is up and running when in fact it is not. Updated initscripts packages also help with the minilogd/initlog deadlock issue. The released versions of Mandrake GNU/Linux affected are: 9.1 [*] 9.1/PPC Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKA-2003:007 Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v0.0.5) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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