Debian Bug report logs - #1069182
initscripts: udev initscript SHOULD NOT clear the udev database at startup

Package: lvm2; Maintainer for lvm2 is Debian LVM Team <[email protected]>; Source for lvm2 is src:lvm2 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Alex Volkov <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:51:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: help, moreinfo

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:19:04 +0100
From: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>
To: Boian Bonev <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], Alex Volkov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bug#1069182: initscripts: udev initscript SHOULD NOT clear the
 udev database at startup
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Boian,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 02:53:08PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 05:25:08PM +0500, Alex Volkov wrote:
> > Now, /etc/init.d/udev for some reason does this in its start clause:
> > 
> > ===
> >    135      # clean up parts of the database created by the initramfs udev
> >    136      udevadm info --cleanup-db
> > ===

I notice Devuan's eudev initscript contains the same[1], presumably with the
same origin. Do you have any thoughts on its purpose or necessity?

Thanks

Mark

[1]  https://git.devuan.org/devuan/eudev/src/branch/suites/unstable/debian/eudev.init#L160




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