udev and rtc question

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Mon Sep 24 19:27:20 UTC 2007


Recently I caught up with updates and started to get
consistently on a startup something like this:

Starting udev: udevd-event[1099]: node_symlink: device node
'/dev/rtc' already exists, link to '/dev/rtc0' will not overwrite it

I do have both "specials" mentioned above and they look
like follows:

crw-r--r-- 1 root root  10, 135 2007-09-24 13:11 /dev/rtc
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 254,   0 2007-09-24 13:11 /dev/rtc0

Clearly created by udev before it attempts to create a link to
/dev/rtc0 hence something is a bit fishy.

So should the above be ignored, and why it is printed in such
case, or this is really harmful and a bugzilla time?

   Michal




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