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»Q« wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> My daily update pulled in udev-197-r3. The installation went smoothly |
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>> but I decided I ought to reboot to check that I could. I couldn't. |
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>> Udev couldn't start because my kernel config didn't have |
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>> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. So I booted my rescue system on the same disk, |
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>> chrooted in and built a new kernel with that option. On rebooting |
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>> everything was fine. |
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> This got me too. Now there's a discussion in -dev about making config |
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> warnings fatal. |
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Good idea, but as I updated udev yesterday on one of my Gentoo systems, |
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in the usual after-update messages there was a line in red, telling me |
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"You don't have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS enabled. udev will not start." So it's |
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not really a surprise, is it? Hence, I built a new kernel *before* |
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rebooting :-) |
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-Matt |
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