[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#338743: bluez-utils: MAKEDEV not found in /dev

[Jochen Schulz]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 3.1-4+b1
Followup-For: Bug #338743

reopen 338743
thanks

Hi,

Upgrading to version 3.1-4+b1 failed on my unstable system with the
following message:

Creating device nodes ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bluez-utils.postinst: line 38: ./MAKEDEV: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing bluez-utils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bluez-utils

Line 36 in bluez-utils.postinst (as suggested by Marco) appears to be
the culprit:
        cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV bluetooth

On my system, MAKEDEV resides in /dev/.static/dev/, not in /dev.
Additionally, I found /sbin/MAKEDEV and /dev/.static/dev/MAKEDEV to be
the same, so I replaced the line above by a simple run of '/sbin/MAKEDEV
bluetooth' and it appears to work (didn't test whether bluetooth works,
though).

I don't want to pretend I understand all this stuff, I just wanted to
make sure this doesn't go unnoticed. I guess severity 'grave' still
applies, so I left it at that.

Thanks,
Jochen.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.13
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  dbus                         0.92-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libbluetooth2                3.1-1       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  0.92-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.71-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-83    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.2.2-3     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.27.0-6  Linux module utilities
ii  sysvinit                     2.86.ds1-20 System-V-like init utilities
ii  udev                         0.100-1     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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