[gentoo-user] Re: udev (probably)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 15:05 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I've been working all day rearranging furniture in my apartment.  I got
> the my computer to its new spot and hooked everything up and booted and
> I saw a message that said something about some kernel option that was
> turned on that shouldn't be, and that udev might not work.  When I got
> logged in, I found that Mythtv was all screwed up and that it said I
> didn't have any programs set to record.  LiveTV didn't work at all.  My
> tv card (dev/video0); ls says it's there, but cat says it's not.  When I
> used /etc/init.d/udev I got a message saying that the udev initscript
> only works with baselayout 2 and that I shouldn't use it with baselayout
> 1.  I didn't even know I was using baselayout 1!  Anyway, is there a
> way, after I've booted the computer, to access those messages shown at
> startup?

I found it in /var/log/messages.  It said:

Nov 23 15:37:07 camille kernel: udev: missing sysfs features; please
update the kernel or disable the kernel's CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
option; udev may fail to work correctly
Nov 23 15:00:01 camille sudo:  michael : TTY=pts/4 ; PWD=/home/michael ;
USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/init.d/udev restart

I'm rebuilding the kernel with that option disabled, but in the meantime
why did Mythtv forget my programs set to record?  I checked that mysql
is running, and it is, I checked mythbacked.  The only discrepancy I can
find is the existence of /dev/video0...