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On 2009-01-25, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> I have a server running that hets that null/console missing |
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>>> message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. |
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>> A missing /dev/console stops the boot process here. It boots |
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>> without /dev/null, but only after udev spews out a load of |
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>> messages. |
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> Ah, not to worry: I've been assured in the gentoo forum thread |
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> that the problems we see when the root filesystem doesn't have |
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> proper /dev/null and /dev/console nodes aren't really |
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> happening: |
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> Neither /dev/null nor /dev/console are needed at boot-time, |
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> therefore their absence doesn't cause problems. |
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For posterity's sake, one of the problems that wasn't happening |
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was that my root partition always had to be recovered at |
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startup -- it apparently wasn't getting properly unmounted |
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during shutdown. After re-creating the root partition's /dev |
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tree, that was cured. |
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This leads one to suspect that the block device node for the |
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root partition (/dev/hda3 in my case) is also required along |
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with /dev/null and /dev/console for proper start-up and |
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shut-down. |
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Grant |