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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. |
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>> Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget |
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>> about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. |
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>> When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails |
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>> and everything thereafter fails. |
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>> I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the |
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>> files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what |
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>> I had to do. |
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>> I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. |
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> me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the |
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> power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( |
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> Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, |
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> mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update |
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> But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. |
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Hey guys , |
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always read post emerge messages!! Portage always tells me when to update config files! |
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