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From: Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] missing critical device files in /dev
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:45:13
Message-Id: 20071023004358.391fbc4f@pataki.bogus.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] missing critical device files in /dev by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:18:33 +0200
2 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3
4 > On Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007, Arnau Bria wrote:
5 >
6 > when you create null and console, /dev must not be mounted. It has to
7 > happen in a 'virgin' /dev without udev&co running.
8 Yep, I did it using my livecd...
9
10 > Maybe it helps when you boot with init=/bin/bash and create the files
11 > from there.
12 Well, if I did it correctly, do I need to re-do it again?
13
14 I have no link files in my restored backup... and permit of many files
15 have been lost... I know this is a problem but could this part of the
16 big problem?
17
18 my backup is fine, i.e:
19 $ ls -lsa|grep profile
20 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 2007-09-26 11:35 make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/server/
21
22 $ ls -lsa ../var/spool/postfix/
23 total 68
24 4 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2006-11-21 17:35 .
25 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-06-13 17:15 ..
26 4 drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 2007-09-26 11:31 active
27 4 drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 2007-09-25 21:48 bounce
28
29 cheers,
30 Arnau
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Re: [gentoo-user] missing critical device files in /dev Arnau Bria <arnaubria@×××.es>