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On Montag 16 März 2009, Justin wrote: |
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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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> >> |
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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 |
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> >> reboot. When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init |
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> >> script fails and everything thereafter fails. |
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> >> |
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> >> I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit |
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> >> the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this |
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> >> was what I had to do. |
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> >> |
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> >> I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was |
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> >> happening. |
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> > |
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> > me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch |
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> > of the 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 |
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> > from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update |
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> > |
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> > But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. |
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> |
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> Hey guys , |
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> |
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> always read post emerge messages!! Portage always tells me when to update |
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> config files! |
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yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before |
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you had a chance to update the config files. |
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