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Lähettäjä: Arne Wichmann
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Aihe: [devuan-dev] bug#407: eudev Bug reorg
reopen 383
forcemerge 407 383
tags 407 + patch
thanks

After looking a bit more deeply into this I find that it is still open.

It only bites if you are running a too new kernel while upgrading from
someting below 3.2.7-1 to 3.2.7-1 or greater. And while not being chrooted.

I propose the patch of András:

--- ./eudev.preinst     2020-11-07 21:09:24.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/eudev.preinst  2021-04-26 18:25:02.970434903 +0200
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@


       local needed_symbols='inotify_init signalfd accept4 open_by_handle_at timerfd_create epoll_create'
       for symbol in $needed_symbols; do
-      if ! egrep -q "^[a-fA-F0-9]+ T \.?sys_${symbol}$" /proc/kallsyms; then
+      if ! egrep -q "^[a-fA-F0-9]+ T .*sys_${symbol}$" /proc/kallsyms; then
          cat <<END
 Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in
 the running kernel:


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It leaves open corner cases but less than the version before.

cu

AW
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