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130120 victor romanchuk wrote: |
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> On 01/20/2013 12:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be stable. |
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>> There were multiple problems & I'm now back with udev-171 . |
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>> (1) "Setting system clock using HW clock; can't access HW clock". |
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>> (2) "Mounting local filesystems; mount point /dev/shm doesn't exist". |
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>> (3) 'startx' : no mouse or keys. |
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>> (4) 'dhcpcd' hangs. |
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>> I recompiled util-linux mesa xf86-input-evdev xorg-server , |
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>> recompiled the kernel (3.5.3) to enable DEVTMPFS . |
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The problem was the new USE flag +openrc : |
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I added it to the list in make.conf , remerged -197 , |
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remerged the other 4 pkgs as above & all seems to be well. |
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Thankyou to another responder, who pointed out the new /lib/udev/ : |
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this doesn't affect my system, but it's important to know re it. |
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> The only observation is absence of device file /dev/root |
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> whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are referring to that device node: |
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> # grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts |
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> /etc/mtab:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,commit=0 0 0 |
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> /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 |
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> /proc/mounts:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 |
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> i'm running 3.6.11-gentoo, proprietary nvidia, sys-fs/mdadm, |
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> sys-fs/lvm2, with no initrd of any flavour; boots using legacy grub; |
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> the root filesystem is on softraid device |
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I have |
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root:508 ~> grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts |
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/etc/mtab:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 |
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/etc/mtab:/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0 |
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/etc/mtab:cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 |
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/proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 |
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/proc/mounts:/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0 |
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/proc/mounts:cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 |
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I use kernel 3.5.3-gentoo, Nvidia, none of your others ; Lilo ; no raid. |
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SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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