Re: [gentoo-user] boot problem since devfs-udev switch

[Richard Fish]

Zac Medico wrote:

> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>>
>> uname -a
>> Linux energy 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #2 Thu Jul 14 07:37:15 CEST 2005 i686
>> AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>>
>> it bootet fine with devfs, oh, and the config is the same since ages,
>> three days later, I switched to udev.
>>
>> Btw, I greped the config for random/urandom, there was nothing found.
>> Hm, where should I look?
>>
>
> There's no Kconfig option because the random number generator is a
> required feature.  I don't see how it could be a udev issue because
> the /dev/urandom device file is either there or not and after that
> it's the kernel's responsibility.  I would build a new kernel.
>
> Zac


You can pretty quickly determine if it is a kernel problem or a udev 
problem by adding a
'ls -l /dev/urandom' to /etc/init.d/urandom:

start() {
[...]
        ls -l /dev/urandom  # debug strangeness
        ebegin "Initializing random number generator"
        umask 077
        dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/run/random-seed count=1 &> /dev/null

Also, only the display options for devfs were removed from 2.6.12, the 
code and config option in .config are still there.  Can you double check 
your kernel config, and make sure that "# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set".  
I think if you copied an old kernel config, you could have devfs support 
still in your kernel, which might cause some strange behavior.  I'm not 
sure.

-Richard

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