Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem during boot SOLVED

[Francisco Ares]

Thanks a lot, that was it.

There's an issue with genkernel too, as it didn't disabled
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED as stated during an still failing boot.

Compiled again with that key disabled, and now I'm on my favorite
environment without rescue CDs.

Have some polishing to do, though ;-)

Thanks again
Francisco

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o> wrote:

> Francisco Ares schrieb am 13.11.2009 23:19:
> > Hi
> >
> > After a lot of updates without rebooting (I`ve been keeping my computer
> on
> > during several weeks), now it can`t boot anymore. Thanks to the LiveDVD
> I`m
> > able to try somethings, including a "emerge --sync" and a "emerge -vuDN
> > world", followed up by a "etc-update" and a "revdep-rebuild" - nothing
> > strange and no results.
> >
> > The error message is like this (I had to copy it by hand, sorry for any
> > typo):
> >
> > *Press I to enter interactive mod
> >  * Mounting proc at /proc ...                                     [ok]
> >  *** Skipping mount of /sys as /sys/kernel exists
> > ** *** Mounting /dev ...
>  [ok]
> > ** ***** Starting udevd ...
> [ok]
> > **
> > ** ***** Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ...
>  [ok]
> > **
> > ** ***** Assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist
>  **
> > ** ***** Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ...
>  [ok]
> > **
> > ** ***** Caching service dependencies ...
> **
> > [ok]**
> > Can't open /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0
> > failed to configure resolution and icon positioning
> > Failed to load theme 'livecd-2007.0'
> > ** ***** Checking root filesystem ...
> > Failed to open the device '/dev/sda9': No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > ** ***** Filesystem couldn't be fixed :(
> > Give root password for maintenance
> > (or type Control-D to continue):
> > ** ** **
> > *Giving root password and listing the contents of the '/dev' directory,
> > there are very few entries, none for my disk partitions, for example.
> >
> > I`ve already re-emerged udev, baselayout, and even built a new kernel -
> > currently using 2.6.27-r7 and tried 2.6.30-r8 (I guess there`s nothing to
> do
> > with the kernel, but I've built it just in case)
> >
> > Most probably I missed some messages during the ebuilds of the updates
> I've
> > been applying.
> >
> > Any ideas on where to look for?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Francisco
>
> I guess this is baselayout-1. Please take a look at bug #291916 [1]
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/291916
>
> --
> Daniel Pielmeier
>
>


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