On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Sean Crago [email protected] wrote:

I recently did a benign looking apt-get dist-upgrade in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and, a few days later, rebooted. I think a kernel patch was involved, but I'm not sure/haven't tried to revert to an old one yet to fix this problem, but I'd like to find a cleaner fix:

I have one old PATA HDD on my box that I mount on boot to /tmp via a UUID-based fstab entry. This used to work just fine. It's mounted a generic SCSI device, so it doesn't show up as hda1 anymore, but it shows up as sda1 and is symlinked to in /dev/disk/*/, as are my other generic SCSI devices - My removable media, my memory card reader, etc. Now, though, I don't see anything except my one SATA drive in my /dev/disk/by-*/ entries.

To make things substantially MORE strange, all of these problems went away at 13:37 this afternoon, when the missing symlinks were created en masse. No reference at all exists to that time in any plaintext file in /var/log/

Any guesses as to what's wrong with my system and how to prevent this from blocking a proper UUID-based fstab from working at boot time?

Thanks, Sean Crago Kathmandu

Perhaps I should rephrase the question - What creates the UUID symlinks? If I could reliably force it to go off before I mount my fstab contents, it would fix my problem.