Probably a given - but udev-030-26 made my system unbootable (detailed)
David Hollis
dhollis at davehollis.com
Sat Sep 18 15:06:10 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 12:50 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2004, at 04:44, Mark Mielke wrote:
>
> > The first error was "Warning: unable to find a console" or something
> > to that
> > effect. The boot process paused. I manually created:
> >
> > crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Sep 17 22:18 console
> >
> > Then, it complained about /dev/null not being writable. Sure enough,
> > /dev/null was a regular file with bytes in it. *sigh* Created that as:
> >
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Feb 23 2004 null
> >
> > No luck. Booting still had major trouble. Finally I gave up:
I actually noticed this after I upgraded my udev. Fortunately, I didn't
reboot! I checked out my /dev directory and noticed that null was a
regular file and there wasn't a heckuva lot in there. I
ran /sbin/udevstart and it recreated everything and life was good. When
I rebooted later things came up with no problems.
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David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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