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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.12.13 & bug 291916
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:30:38
Message-Id: 201009041929.07201.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Baselayout 1.12.13 & bug 291916 by Philip Webb
1 On Saturday 04 September 2010 13:20:06 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > Today -- some time after most other users (smile) -- I ran into bug 291916
3 > . I updated my Asus EEE netbook to Baselayout 1.12.13 & got the messages
4 > "assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist" etc ;
5 > downgrading back to Baselayout 1.12.11.1 solved the problem.
6 > I've been using 1.12.13 on the desktop since 2009-11-14 w/o problems.
7 >
8 > The bug suggests booting from a live USB & emptying /sys ,
9 > but that seems awkward & hardly the long-term solution.
10 > What is the current proper practice when upgrading to Baselayout 1.12.13 ?
11 >
12 > Or is the best solution to move to Baselayout 2 ?
13 > What are others' experiences ?
14
15 I did not have this problem on two x86 and one amd64 systems. My amd64 box
16 has:
17
18 $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep CONFIG_SYSFS
19 # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set
20 CONFIG_SYSFS=y
21
22 Isn't this simply a matter of configuring your kernel accordingly?
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Mick

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