Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +0000, Nick Cunningham wrote:
> >>> But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a
> >>> reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up
> >>> with problems such as no console during startup.
> >>
> >> IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by udev
> >> so i would check that udev is installed and working properly,
> >> if you use openrc then this could be the cause as openrc now
> >> starts udev through normal scripts i think, sometimes on
> >> upgrade from baselayout 1 they may not be automatically added
> >> to the right runlevels.
> >
> > You still need /dev/console in the dev directory of the root partition,
> > along with /dev/null.
>
> Try telling that to somebody in the Gentoo forum hiding behind
> the screen name "desultory".  Sheesh.  I reported the issue to
> the forum thread as requested by the article on www.gentoo.org,
> and I got a very hostile reaction.  Bascially I got a snide,
> insulting response, a complete denial that there was a problem
> with the tarball in question, and a denial that either
> /dev/console or /dev/null is needed at boot time.
>
> That's the last time I waste my time with that forum.  I should
> have known. Web forums all suck.  Web forum UIs are all
> completely abominable, and they seem to be inhabited almost
> exclusively by surly, unjustifiably arrogant junior-high kids
> hiding behind stupid screen names and even worse avatars.
>
> > Anything else is a waste of disk space and inodes as the
> > static /dev/devices are hidden as soon as udev starts.
>
> Yup.
>
> > If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but
> > it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries.

I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot 
- and it does not hurt it at any way.