Workaround invocations from installation of power-management packages. Index: hurd-debian/sutils/MAKEDEV.sh =================================================================== --- hurd-debian.orig/sutils/MAKEDEV.sh +++ hurd-debian/sutils/MAKEDEV.sh @@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ mkdev() { st $I root 640 /hurd/null ;; + apm) + ;; + *) lose "$I: Unknown device name" ;;