Re: [gentoo-server] udev conflict

[Thien Vu]

On 6/20/06, Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Do you (or anyone else) know for sure that udev is absolutely not
> used by a 2.4 kernel?
>

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7
If you are using a 2.4 kernel, you need to select /dev file system as
2.4 kernels do not support udev.

Thien


> It seems like I read this somewhere, but I haven't been sure enough to simply uninstall
> it. This machine is about 1000 miles away from me, serves about a dozen live sites, and
> handles email for dozens of people (including myself), so I definitely don't want to make
> it unbootable! :-)
>
> b
>
> Patrick Lauer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:30 -0700, Ben Munat wrote:
> >
> >>No one had any ideas on this? I can't emerge -uD world... :-(
> >
> > emerge unmerge udev && emerge -upD world ?
> >
> > looks like udev shouldn't be there, but portage is too "dumb" to realize
> > that it should block ...
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> >
> >>Ben Munat wrote:
> >>
> >>>When I do "emerge -puD world" on my server (running kernel 2.4.31), I
> >>>get the output below. I understand that this means that portage is
> >>>trying to emerge udev and can't find anything that's not masked. But I
> >>>don't understand why.
> >>>
> >>>I have udev 087 installed, which according to packages.gentoo.org is the
> >>>most recent "+" version of udev.
> >>>
> >>>According to "equery depends udev", the only thing that depends on udev
> >>>is baselayout and I have baselayout-1.11.14-r8 installed, which is the
> >>>only "+" version of baselayout according to packages.gentoo.org.
> >>>
> >>>I also don't have anything in any of the /etc/portage files about
> >>>baselayout or udev. However, I am using a 2.4 profile:
> >>>
> >>>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4/
> >>>
> >>>And, hey this is odd... sys-fs/udev should be masked according to the
> >>>package.mask in that profile... So, how is it that I even have it
> >>>installed? Yeah, isn't a 2.4 kernel supposed to be using devfsd still?
> >>>Do I somehow have the wrong version of baselayout installed?
> >>>
> >>>Well, any insights on this much appreciated!
> >>>
> >>>Ben
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Output of "emerge -puD world":
> >>>
> >>>These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >>>
> >>>Calculating world dependencies  ..
> >>>!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-fs/udev-070" have been masked.
> >>>!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> >>>request:
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-079-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
> >>># Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@g.o>
> >>># New toys enabled by 2.6 headers
> >>>
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-089 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-086 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-087 (masked by: package.mask)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-084 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-085 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-081 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-089-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-089-r2 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-070-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-081-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-077-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-077-r2 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-077-r3 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-077-r4 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-077-r5 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-090 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-073 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-072 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-071 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-077 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-079 (masked by: package.mask)
> >>>- sys-fs/udev-078 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> >>>
> >>>For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> >>>refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> >>>(dependency required by "sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r8" [ebuild])
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>!!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/baselayout
> >>>!!! Depgraph creation failed.
> >>>
> >>>
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