[PLUG] USB Camera problem, encountered and resolved (I think) and more carping about udev
Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
wevl at pacifier.com
Sun Dec 26 21:14:45 UTC 2010
Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, David Fleck wrote:
>
>
>> My questions now are, (1) is there a better way to do this, and (2) why
>> would this have broken, when before it Just Worked?
>> As to why it broke: udev has undergone major surgery the details of which
>> I do not know, nor do I care to know and now works quite differently from
>> before.
>>
>> Happy holidays,
>>
>> Rich
>>
The addition of udev rules has been a pain in the ass for me. I keep
maybe a dozen hards disks in mobile docks but only have a few computers.
When I put a disk into a different computer, udev rules prevent the
network from working and prevent the CDROM / DVD drive from working. The
answer in Slackware has been to delete
/etc/udev/rules.d/persistant-whatever-is-not-working and reboot.
I guess udev rules were good for folks running servers who wanted to
make sure that eth0, for example was always on a particular network
interface card.
It will be pain in the ass for my customers who may have several
computers in use at various locations in their production plants and one
spare computer into which they used to install the mobile dock / disk
from the computer that failed. Luckily it doesn't happen often.
Wayne
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