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+Troubleshooting udev for dev on Red Hat distro
+
+1) Make sure you have a rescue disk/cd in case you hose your machine. You've
+ been forewarned.
+2) Grab latest udev tarball or clone udev bitkeeper tree
+ (bk://linuxusb.bkbits.net.udev)
+3) Follow README and HOWTO-udev_for_dev documents
+
+The following is some additional help to get udev for dev up and running on RH.
+
+Q. I login as my normal self from the login screen and RH just hangs on an
+ empty blue screen. What's wrong?
+
+A. You have some wrong permissions. I'm guessing you can probably log in as root
+ but not as your normal user. Basically you need to edit the
+ /etc/udev/udev.permissions file to set the correct permissions to the nodes
+ in /dev. I added the following:
+
+ null:root:users:0666
+ urandom:root:users:0644
+
+ setting the correct permissions to null and urandom allowed me to login
+ as myself and not at root.
+
+ While you are there you might want to set the permissions to ptmx as well
+ or you may have trouble getting a bash prompt in an xterm. i.e.
+ ptmx:root:users:0666 Also refer to the next question.
+
+Q. I'm having trouble getting a bash prompt from my xterm. i.e. I bring up a
+ terminal and all I have is a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
+
+A. First make sure you have the correct permissions set for ptmx. See above
+ Q&A for help on this. But I'm guessing that something is wrong with your
+ /dev/pts, thanks Captain Obvious, heh:) You probably have devpts mounted
+ to /dev/pts from /etc/fstab. I'm also guessing that you have sysfs mounted
+ to /sys from /etc/fstab as well. If this is the case then the line in
+ /etc/rc.sysinit
+
+ action $"Mounting local filesystems:" mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs -O no_netdev
+
+ will have mounted these for you. As a result you placed your call to
+ start_udev directly after this because the HOWTO-udev_for_dev document
+ told you to insert start_udev after /proc and /sys have been mounted.
+ Well start_udev actually overwrites /dev thus anything you had mounted in
+ /dev prior to start_udev being called will be blown away. So basically,
+ you mounted devpts to /dev/pts because everything in /etc/fstab was mounted
+ and then it was blown away by calling start_udev. A simple fix is to remove
+ the mount devpts line from /etc/fstab and mount it after calling start_udev.
+ I did the following:
+
+ action $"Mounting local filesystems:" mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs -O no_netdev
+ /etc/rc.d/start_udev
+ action $"Mounting devpts: " mount -t devpts none /dev/pts
+
+ After doing so I rebooted and was able to get my prompt from my xterm.
+
+Q. I'm getting some error messages during boot. How do I get rid of them?
+
+A. For me it was a matter of setting up Symlinks. Basically, some /dev entries
+ were being looked for and not being found so an error was thrown. For example,
+ /dev/cdrom was needed but udev had named it /dev/hdc by default. Basically I
+ edited my /etc/udev/udev.rules file to create a symlink from /dev/cdrom to
+ /dev/hdc and my error went away.
+
+These are some of the things I ran into. NOTE: I hosed my machine more than once
+trying to figure this out and a rescue disk was my best friend. If you have any
+other experiences and would like to add to this Q&A list feel free to send me a
+patch (ogasawara@osdl.org). Hopefully this helped someone. Thanks.