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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: boot failure
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:06:32
Message-Id: 50C7F450.2090002@nileshgr.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: boot failure by James
1 On Wednesday 12 December 2012 08:19 AM, James wrote:
2 > James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> looking into : /mnt/gentoo/new/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev
6 >> I cannot tell what version of udev (udev mount)
7 >> and others (udev-init-scipts ?) were installed
8 >> and how to roll this back.
9 >
10 > OK so on one of my working systems, I have
11 > sys-fs/udev-171-r9 installed. So I should
12 > go chroot and downgrade to udev-171-r9?
13 >
14 > Any other packages to roll back?
15 > Googling did not produce anything useful.
16 >
17 >
18 > James
19 >
20 >
21
22 Downgrading udev would probably put you in a much bigger soup. Just
23 recompile your kernel with devtmpfs support.
24
25 You might want to use a recovery disk sort of thing or some live usb/cd.
26
27 --
28 Nilesh Govindarajan
29 http://nileshgr.com