my system needs manual network ifup after boot

[David T Hollis]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:58 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties
> 
> [root at hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages
> Running test transaction:
> Test transaction complete, Success!
> Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected.
> error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1
> Updated:  MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386
> Transaction(s) Complete
> [root at hoho2 ~]#
> 
Updating dev also produces this.  The problem is that the the preinstall
script is checking for anything mounted on /dev (thinking that would be
devfs).  Recently (not sure when exactly), /dev is now mounted as ramfs
so the install/upgrade of dev fails.

-- 
David T Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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