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On 15 Jan, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 01/14/2010 01:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> An old machine hadn't been turned on in a few months. I decided I |
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>>> try getting it up to date so I went through an emerge cycle to see if |
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>>> I could get things going. It was a little picky about upgrading udev |
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>>> but at the time I thought it had gone OK, but possibly not. emerge |
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>>> -DuN @system completed without errors, running it again said there was |
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>>> nothing to update, python-updater ran fine, as did revdep-rebuild. |
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>>> However when I rebooted I see messages when starting udev: |
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>>> |
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>>> inotify_init failed: fnction not implemented... |
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>> |
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>> inotify_init is provided by glibc, so that seems to be important. That |
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>> machine seems to have some mismatched components, but which ones? |
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>> |
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>> It's important that glibc be compiled with the kernel headers that are |
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>> actually installed on your machine, so the order of package upgrading |
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>> does matter, at least when system libs like glibc are involved. |
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>> E.g. if glibc was updated *before* the kernel-headers package then you |
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>> might expect such problems. Of course, I have no idea if that's what |
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>> happened to you. |
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>> |
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>> On my x86 I have linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 and glibc-2.10.1-r1. I see |
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>> that all of my linux-headers files are dated 2009-08-24, and glibc |
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>> was updated just this week. You may want to check to see which of |
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>> those packages was installed earlier. |
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>> |
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>> Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc |
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>> and udev again? |
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> |
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> Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't |
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> right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file |
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> with vi. |
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Try booting by using a rescue CD (www.sysresccd.org) |
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fsck your root disk |
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chroot to your root disk |
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then try to repair your system (e.g. building/installing |
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a new kernel) |
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Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |
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