Bug#968359: linux-image-5.7.0-2-amd64: '/dev/fd' is not created automatically

From	Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#968359: linux-image-5.7.0-2-amd64: '/dev/fd' is not created automatically
Date	2020-11-20 10:40 +0100
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hi,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 04:09:09PM +0200, Boris Jakubith wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.7.10-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The symbolic link '/dev/fd' (which is essential for packages like 'dkms') is
> no longer created at system startup. I'm currently using a small workaround
> for this problem by manually creating this symbolic link with
> 
>     ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd
> 
> in an init script (i'm using the sysv init, not systemd).
> 
> But this should not be the intended solution, as '/dev/fd' should be created
> during the kernel startup, together with (most of) the other devices.
> 
> I marked this bug as 'important', because it cost me half a day to find it,
> after an upgrade of 'virtualbox-dkms' failed. Normal people propbaly may not
> have been able to identify it.

This is probably the same as #968199?

Regards,
Salvatore

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Bug#968359: linux-image-5.7.0-2-amd64: '/dev/fd' is not created automatically Boris Jakubith <runkharr@googlemail.com> - 2020-08-13 16:20 +0200
  Bug#968359: linux-image-5.7.0-2-amd64: '/dev/fd' is not created automatically Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2020-11-20 10:40 +0100

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