start_udev and X crashing after latest FC3T2 update

[Øivind Hoel]

ons, 29,.09.2004 kl. 17.30 -0400, skrev Clyde Kunkel:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:16, Brian Millett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 15:51 -0400, Clyde Kunkel wrote:
> > > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> > >         No such file or directory.
> > > (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
> > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
> > 
> > This is the problem.  No mouse.  Umm.  It also looked like other /dev
> > stuff was missing.  Have you upgraded your kernel lately?  You might
> > want to try to remake the initrd.  I seem to remember that this was a
> > problem in the past when people upgraded a udev package with an initrd
> > that did not use the new udev package.  If you have, then just ignore
> > me. 
> > IE:
> > mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.549.img 2.6.8-1.549
> > 
> > --
> > Brian Millett - [ Ombuds Wellington, "The Quality of Mercy"]
> > "Anything a telepath sees while inside a defendant's mind is
> > inadmissible
> > evidence."
> > 
> > 
> 
> mkinitrd didn't work....something causing probs with /dev/null in the
> profile scripts and atd is not starting.  Don't know if there is a
> relationship there or not.
> 
> Still probing...not giving up.
> 
> Recap:  updated nicely working FC3T2 today before I saw the udev hold. 
> Couldn't startx.  Fixed udev, still can't startx.  Something borked when
> udev failed????
> 

I solved it by downloading and rpm -ivh --force udev-032-2.i386.rpm ;>