Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

[Markos Chandras]

On 05/23/2012 05:24 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2012-05-21 5:00 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
>> On 05/21/2012 03:27 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>>> I updated udev from 171-r5 to 171-r6 and now i get several udevd
>>>>   boot message as : udevd[1389]: can not find
>>>> '/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules': No such file or directory
>>>> udevd[1389]: can not find '/lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules': No
>>>> such file or directory ...................... and so on.
>>>>
>>>> /lib is a symlink pointing to /lib64. /lib64/udev/rules.d is ok
>>>> with all the rules that udevd does not find at boot.
>>>
>>> No I would guess it was because of the upgrade of
>>> sys-apps/baselayout to 2.1-r1. Things got crazy here with that
>>> upgrade. I had to re-merge every package with files under /lib/ In
>>>   your case re-merging udev should to the trick.
>
>> The package clearly informed you that you need to reboot for things to
>> work properly
>>
>> "You should reboot the system now to get /run mounted with tmpfs!"
>>
>> Have a look on pkg_postinst() function in that ebuild. You chose to
>> ignore it and this is why you had these problems after the update.
>
> <pet-peeve>
> I asked about this a while back but never got a decent answer...
>
> *Especially* for servers, there really, REALLY needs to be a way to see
> this kind of warning BEFORE updating... ie, the warning should be
> printed to the screen during an 'emerge -pvuDN world' or something, so I
> know that a reboot will be required for this update.
> </pet-peeve>
>
This kind of messages are also printed at the end of -uDNav world so if
you scroll your screen up you can see all the warning/log messages from
every package that you have updated. Also, these kind of messages are
logged in /var/log/portage/

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Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2