[Pkg-tpctl-devel] Bug#364235: thinkpad-base: bad interaction with udev 0.090-2: *all* devices end up group 'thinkpad' (?!)

[Chip Salzenberg]

Package: thinkpad-base
Version: 5.9-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I suspect that since no one else using the new udev 0.090-2 is complaining
about this problem, that thinkpad-base may be at fault.

On reboot with udev 0.090-2, I found /dev/null was group 'thinkpad' and mode
664, a bad thing.  Further inspection revealed that *all* nodes were group
'thinkpad' and *no* nodes had the world-write bit enabled, a very bad thing.

Reverting to udev 0.090-1 fixed the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages thinkpad-base depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.86       Add and remove users and groups
ii  makedev                       2.3.1-81   creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-2    tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.27.0-5 Linux module utilities

Versions of packages thinkpad-base recommends:
ii  thinkpad-modules-2.6.16-1 5.9-2+2.6.16-9 Device driver modules for configur
ii  thinkpad-source           5.9-2          Source code for thinkpad-modules p

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