[Gllug] Removing udev after autoinstall

[Harry Rickards]

I own a Debian Lenny VPS with FSCKVPS.com, and have recently decided  
to setup iptables. To simplify things I decided to use firestarter, so  
setup SSH X forwarding and did 'apt-get install firestarter'. There  
were quite a long list of dependencies (see below), but I had a brief  
look through them and thought they looked ok, and nothing was being  
removed in any case. I went ahead and installed firestarter, and  
started to use it over SSH. However, my VPS is hosted in Atlanta, USA,  
so it was taking forever for each menu in firestarter to load. I gave  
up, and have decided to try and manually setup iptables. I did an  
'apt-get remove firestarter', and then an 'apt-get autoremove'.  
However, both seemed to work, but came up with errors like the  
following:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst: line 72: echo: write error:  
Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal:
  hal depends on udev (>= 0.065); however:
   Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-mount:
  gnome-mount depends on hal; however:
   Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-mount (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools:
  initramfs-tools depends on udev (>= 0.086-1); however:
   Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  udev
  hal
  gnome-mount
  initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I removed hal, gnome-mount and initramfs-tools, as they didn't seem to  
be needed, and was just left with the warning about udev. I then  
removed udev (with an 'apt-get remove udev'). However, after removing  
udev I got the following message:

**************************************************************
* Please reboot your system as soon as possible!
* After removing udev the system may not be fully functional.
**************************************************************

This suggests to me that udev should be installed, yet when it is  
installed, dpkg and apt throw up errors about it. I've googled, and it  
seems that while no-one is in exactly the same situation as me, there  
are people who want to remove udev to speed up the system boot. The  
general advice to these people seems to be no, it will break your  
system? Does anyone have any advice on whether I should reboot and see  
what happens, or re-install udev and ignore the dpkg errors.


Thanks
Harry Rickards



The dependencies firestarter needed:

The following extra packages will be installed:
   busybox console-common console-data dbus dbus-x11 eject esound-clients
   esound-common gconf2 gconf2-common gksu gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data
   gnome-mount hal hal-info initramfs-tools kbd klibc-utils libart-2.0-2
   libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
   libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0
   libbonoboui2-common libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdirectfb-extra
   libeel2-2.20 libeel2-data libenchant1c2a libesd0 libgail-common libgail18
   libgconf2-4 libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2
   libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common
   libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common
   libgnomevfs2-extra libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1
   libhunspell-1.2-0 libidl0 libklibc liblzo2-2 libmalaga7
   libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libpci3
   libsexy2 libsmbclient libsmbios-bin libsmbios2 libsplashy1
   libstartup-notification0 libtalloc1 libvoikko1 libvolume-id0 libwbclient0
   libwnck-common libwnck22 libx86-1 libxres1 myspell-en-us notification-daemon
   pciutils pm-utils powermgmt-base radeontool shared-mime-info sudo udev
   usbutils uswsusp vbetool
Suggested packages:
   unicode-data cdtool setcd dhcp3-server cryptsetup gnome-device-manager
   libbonobo2-bin synaptic app-install-data esound desktop-base
   gnome-icon-theme libgnomevfs2-bin fam libsmbios-doc voikko-fi cpufrequtils
   splashy
The following NEW packages will be installed
   busybox console-common console-data dbus dbus-x11 eject esound-clients
   esound-common firestarter gconf2 gconf2-common gksu gnome-keyring
   gnome-mime-data gnome-mount hal hal-info initramfs-tools kbd klibc-utils
   libart-2.0-2 libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data
   libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
   libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2
   libdirectfb-extra libeel2-2.20 libeel2-data libenchant1c2a libesd0
   libgail-common libgail18 libgconf2-4 libgksu2-0 libglade2-0
   libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common
   libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common
   libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtop2-7
   libgtop2-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libhunspell-1.2-0 libidl0 libklibc
   liblzo2-2 libmalaga7 libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 liborbit2
   libpam-gnome-keyring libpci3 libsexy2 libsmbclient libsmbios-bin libsmbios2
   libsplashy1 libstartup-notification0 libtalloc1 libvoikko1 libvolume-id0
   libwbclient0 libwnck-common libwnck22 libx86-1 libxres1 myspell-en-us
   notification-daemon pciutils pm-utils powermgmt-base radeontool
   shared-mime-info sudo udev usbutils uswsusp vbetool
0 upgraded, 93 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.



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