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

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

severity 364235 critical
thanks

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 07:43:42PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> 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.

If it is so, then this bug is "critical", cause "breaks unrelated
software". (If it is a udev bug, too, with cause "breaks the whole system".

> 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.

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Lionel