CentOS - Feb 2008 - New kernel (2.6.18-53.1.13) generates "unknown attribute" errors during boot

I've seen this now a few times, but of course I didn't write them
down, so I may have the wording a little off.

The new kernel seems to contain something in udevd that is now
generating a whole slew of unknown attribute(or something like that)
errors during the boot, before the part where dmesg picks up.

They don't seem to be causing any actual problems while the system is
up and running, but....

Anyone know anything about this (and what)?

Curious.

mhr

MHR wrote:
> I've seen this now a few times, but of course I didn't write them
> down, so I may have the wording a little off.
> 
> The new kernel seems to contain something in udevd that is now
> generating a whole slew of unknown attribute(or something like that)
> errors during the boot, before the part where dmesg picks up.
> 
> They don't seem to be causing any actual problems while the system is
> up and running, but....
> 
> Anyone know anything about this (and what)?
> 
probably not the kernel, you might have installed some package since 
your previous reboot and you're just seeing the messages now
I know I saw this with a rebuilt libnjb from FC7

check /var/log/messages, you should see what the message was.
I suspect udevd stuff like: unknown key 'ATTRS{idVendor}'

Then grep the string in /etc/udev/rules.d/* to find the culprit

If you have eg some ATTRS{idVendor} you might try replacing them with 
SYSFS{idVendor}