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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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On Saturday 28 November 2009 06:06:59 BRM wrote: |
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> > During boot, udevd (version 146, btw) complains about "error getting |
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> > signalfd". I did some basic hunting and this seems to have been a big |
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> > problem over the last year. I'm running kernel 2.6.25, built on 9/27, from |
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> > the gentoo source tree. The system then breaks while trying to do some |
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> > drive mounts, and I end up in maintenance mode - with read-only |
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> > partitions. |
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<snip> |
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> > The system seems to have the correct partition mounted for the root |
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> > partition, but it doesn't report it as /dev/hdaX yet. However, I need |
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> > access to the other partitions to get to portage. (Due to size of portage, |
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> > and other complications, I've taken to putting it on another partition and |
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> > mapping it. Usually this hasn't been a problem.) |
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> Actual error messages please :-) |
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> Let's start with what is in dmesg. |
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dmesg doesn't provide any useful information for this error. |
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Nor could I find anything in the /var/log/messages. |
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The only error I got was the "error getting signalfd" from udev's startup at boot. |
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> You also mention /dev/hda and the context implies it is a physical disk. |
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> Unless you have ancient disk hardware and unusual module setup, your disks |
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> will be /dev/sda. Do you have references to /dev/dh** in /etc/fstab? That |
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> won;t work as udev will not name them that way |
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Actually, yes - it is a 2003 Dell D600 with a standard ATA/IDE hard drive. |
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So yes - it would be /dev/hda; and yes, udev has been working fine until this issue. |
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Ben |
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