Bug#770883: mdadm: /dev/md/name symlinks disappear with udev 175-7.2

[Michael Tokarev]

05.12.2014 18:00, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 25.11.2014 00:42, Stepan Golosunov wrote:
>> Package: mdadm
>> Version: 3.3.2-2
>>
>> On the next reboot after upgrading mdadm from 3.2.5-5 to 3.3.2-2 I was
>> greeted with a fatal fsck error. Turned out symlinks like /dev/md/boot
>> were missing. Manual creation of the necessary symlink allowed boot to
>> continue. Then I upgraded udev from 175-7.2 to 215-5+b1. After reboot
>> /dev/md/* symlinks were back.
>>
>> Probably mdadm needs a versioned Depends: on udev. I wouldn't want to
>> run into this issue on some remote server.
> 
> Do you have logs from udev about all this?  I don't see why udev update
> might fix this issue, because I don't really see any construct in current
> rules which might make it fail when run by wheezy udev.

Got it.  It is $devnode vs $tempnode in udev.rules.

Will fix.

Thanks,

/mjt