[rhelv6-list] udevd rule error at boot time

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Wed Jul 6 22:29:22 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:27 -0700, Steve Allen wrote:
> "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage at peaknet.net> wrote:
> > Running RHEL6.1 and getting this error msg at boot time:
> > 
> > Starting udev: udevd[696]: NAME="%k" is superfluous and breaks kernel supplied names, please remove it from /etc/udev/rules.d/60-legousbtower.rules:1
> > 
> > Sure enough, that rule is a one-liner:
> > 
> > KERNEL=="legousbtower*", NAME="%k", MODE="0660",OWNER="root" GROUP="lego"
> > 
> > Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Interesting...  My Fedora15 has this:
> 
> KERNEL=="legousbtower*", NAME="usb/lego%n", SYMLINK+="%k", MODE="0660", OWNER="root" GROUP="lego"
> 
> Maybe that'll work better for you.

Steve,

I removed the  ' NAME="%k",'  portion as suggested by Bill Nottingham
and rebooted. No more boot time error, but I don't know what
functionality I may have lost.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL




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