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brihall

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 16

udev update, missing udevcontrol?

During the recent klibc update, pacman also updated udev to 128-5, and afterwards my custom udev rules no longer work. I went to restart udev with "udevcontrol restart" and I see that udevcontrol is missing? Where did that go, did something replace it? Restarting hal didn't help. Probably the udev update changed something. Couldn't find anything in the forums of bugs...

nielsb

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From: Harrogate, UK

Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 32

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Re: udev update, missing udevcontrol?

During the recent klibc update, pacman also updated udev to 128-5, and afterwards my custom udev rules no longer work. I went to restart udev with "udevcontrol restart" and I see that udevcontrol is missing? Where did that go, did something replace it? Restarting hal didn't help. Probably the udev update changed something. Couldn't find anything in the forums of bugs...

I noticed that as well. After having looked around a little bit, it seems that udevcontrol has been replaced with udevadm. Have a look at the man page for udevadm and see what it does. The command to reload the rules seem now to be: udevadm control --reload-rules

HTH

Niels

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brihall

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 16

Re: udev update, missing udevcontrol?

Thanks, I'll add that to my list of obscure commands I rarely use and can't remember.

Unfortunately, doing "udevadm control --reload-rules" and restarting hal didn't help, I had to reboot (gasp!) for my custom devices to show up in /dev/disk/by-label.

Would be nice pacman could restart the appropriate daemons after udev+etc upgrade, or at least tell you what commands to issue or recommend a reboot if necessary.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: udev update, missing udevcontrol?

Hey -- sorry to bump this old thread, but I'd like to know a way of reloading /dev Anyone come up with something? As above, udevadm control --reload-rules does not work.

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: udev update, missing udevcontrol?

perhaps

udevadm trigger

vlad