I really need some help here udevhotplugusbusbmount etc etc. 2029

Bob Hauck I don't know. I got an installation CD from a friend, and just followed it along. As far as I know that would always configure the system to pull from stable.

I am 99.99% certain that udev 0.093 was in stable.

It *isn't now*.

Tell me how apt-get knows what to pull from and maybe it will shed light.

Indeed. So a package with wrong dependencies was added to stable? I don't know.

All I know is I simply asked for udev, in case I had a problem with it, and, thinking that nothing that was incompatible would install took what came along.

What came along was 0.093 and it installed without a problem, it just didn't run. And broke the USB subsystem.

I have still got it on my system in .deb form, so if you want to tell me how to see what's inside it, let me know.

2006-05-30 17:17 udev0.093-1i386.deb

And from dpkg.log 2006-08-11 13:26:50 status unpacked udev 0.093-1 2006-08-11 13:26:50 status half-configured udev 0.093-1 2006-08-11 13:26:50 status installed udev 0.093-1

That's when the system broke..I was then running a 2.6.8 kernel.

Even if I HAD pulled it down by some mechanism I had invoked unwittingly - and I still don't know how to use apt-get to get other than what it wants to get..I had to physically FORCE a kernel upgrade to an unstable one using lower level tools.. tell me why 093 installed without error.

I am anxious to know.