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Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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>> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror |
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>> it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of |
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>> stuff. |
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> I think it is. |
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> After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except |
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> /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the number of |
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> my devices decreased to 850 from formerly 5200. |
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> A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i |
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> deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work. |
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> So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After |
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> installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my |
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> case /dev/tty1. |
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> Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem! |
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> It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on |
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> the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working |
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> properly. You can fix the problem by doing: |
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> mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp |
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> mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1 |
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> umount /lib/splash/tmp |
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> I hope this helps to avoid confusion! |
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> Daniel |
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So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea? Can I just move them and |
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then copy them back? Or is what I have normal number wise? |
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Full of questions ain't I? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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