Comment 51 for bug 807306

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 807306] Re: [oneiric] Keyboard & mouse not working in X

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:36:38PM -0000, Robert Hooker wrote:
> if sysvinit and initramfs-tools are going to take awhile to update
> (which they probably will since its a very complex merge) perhaps
> removing /run in the base-files postinst is the way to go? This should
> be affecting 100% of upgraded systems now that there is a udev upgrade
> today and is very critical.

I don't think *removing* /run is the right thing to do. If the mere
presence of run causes udev to misbehave, then that's a udev bug that needs
to be fixed separately; someone needs to figure out what's really going on
here, as nothing in the sysvinit merge is likely to help...

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