my system needs manual network ifup after boot

[Bob Gustafson]

The MAKEDEV problem eems to be fixed - I think I saw a successful update.

However, ifup still needs to be run after boot

[root at hoho2 user1]# date
Sat Aug 28 10:40:45 CDT 2004

[root at hoho2 user1]# yum update MAKEDEV
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
No Packages Available for Update
No actions to take
[root at hoho2 user1]#

BobG


On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:38:58 -0400 David T Hollis wrote
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>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.
>
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