Cryptic Messages at startup tonight

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 07:51 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Dazed_75 wrote:
> > These showed up tonight upon booting into Ubuntu 6.10 (I have disabled
> > the silent splash exactly so I get a clue occasionally when something
> > unexpected happens.  These were extracted from /var/log/syslog BTW and
> > there were pages and pages of them.  Anyone have a clue what thewy mean
> > or why they are present?
> > 
> > Mar  8 08:15:54 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> > 'ATTRS{idVendor}'
> > Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> > 'ATTRS{idProduct}'
> > Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> > 'ATTRS{idVendor}'
> > Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> > 'ATTRS{idProduct}'
> > Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> > 'ATTRS{idVendor}'
> > Mar  8 08:15:55 localhost udevd[2298]: add_to_rules: unknown key
> > 'ATTRS{idProduct}'
> > etc ...
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> Cryptic? I'm surprised that these don't look a bit familiar to you by now.
> ;) They're pretty much standard log messages. udevd[2298] is the name and
> pid of the process that generated the message. udevd is the udev daemon.
> add_to_rules appears to be a function of udevd, unknown key is the error
> identifier, and ATTRS{id...} is the specific instance that caused the error.
> 
> From the little I know, udev is something that dynamically builds the /dev/
> tree in your system (used to be static). add_to_rules appears to be
> something SELINUX related. SELINUX is a relatively new facility that adds
> extended security capabilities to Linux. I'm guessing that udevd is trying
> to create SELINUX attributes (ATTRS) for a particular device(s) and doesn't
> understand what the various id's are, so these rules aren't being created
> like they should be.
> 
> I can't think of a reason why anyone would want/need to use SELINUX on a
> laptop, but I'm sure someone will think of one. I'm betting that if you turn
> off SELINUX that the messages will go away. See
> http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html for details.
> 
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Ubuntu doesn't have/offer SELinux - thus, there is nothing to turn off.

Craig