Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage.
>> >
>> > Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget
>> > about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot.
>> > When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails
>> > and everything thereafter fails.
>> >
>> > I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit
>> > the files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was
>> > what I had to do.
>> >
>> > I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was
>> > happening.
>>
>> me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of
>> the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :(
>> Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from
>> it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update
>>
>> But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome.
>
> I'll say :-) Actually, sometimes I think MKNOD was really cool and just do
> everything static.
>
> I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this
> was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping
> off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4
> minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to
> use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks,
> really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty
> on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a
> phone)  :-)

What sucks about PuTTY on Windows? I use it all the time and it seems
to do everything... Granted, I just use it for simple serial port
devices and SSH stuff, no exotic terminal emulations.

PuTTY on Symbian only does SSH but it seems to do it well enough.
Running it full-screen with the smallest font is actually not so bad,
even on my 240x320 screen. Being able to connect to my computer
wherever I have a cellular signal is convenient... typing with T9 on a
numeric phone keypad, not so much... but that's the phone's fault, not
PuTTY's. :P I've been meaning to set up a simple menu script that
allows me to run all of my common tasks with phone-friendly
keystrokes. emerge -uDvptN blah blah blah really sucks to tap out on
the 0-9 keys :) Thank god for bash command history...