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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:46:19
Message-Id: 20130123174533.64fae3f8@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers by Thanasis
1 On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:10:44 +0200
2 Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > on 01/23/2013 04:41 AM »Q« wrote the following:
5 > > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:57:59 +0000
6 > > Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> On Sunday 20 January 2013 08:51:43 Philip Webb wrote:
9 > >>> I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be
10 > >>> stable. There were multiple problems & I'm now back with
11 > >>> udev-171 .
12 > >>
13 > >> My daily update pulled in udev-197-r3. The installation went
14 > >> smoothly but I decided I ought to reboot to check that I could. I
15 > >> couldn't. Udev couldn't start because my kernel config didn't have
16 > >> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. So I booted my rescue system on the same disk,
17 > >> chrooted in and built a new kernel with that option. On rebooting
18 > >> everything was fine.
19 > >>
20 > >> Just a note for anyone else who may not have that kernel option.
21 > >
22 > > This got me too. Now there's a discussion in -dev about making
23 > > config warnings fatal.
24 > >
25 >
26 > It hit me too, as I hadn't noticed any warning messages..., maybe the
27 > messages were added afterwards..., or I was not careful enough...
28
29
30 A news item about this is coming down the wire very soon now (aka
31 within hours judging by the thread on -dev).
32
33 Unfortunately, it's too late for you now but at least many other users
34 will see the message before they emerge world and save them some pain
35
36
37 --
38 Alan McKinnon
39 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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