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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X.org can't get up
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:59:30
Message-Id: 439A25C4.4070204@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] X.org can't get up by "Rafael Fernández López"
1 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
2
3 >Hi,
4 >
5 >I've done an "emerge -vuD world", and udev was updated to 077-r3. Now my
6 >computer can't get up X.org, and cannot recognize devices.
7 >
8 >Is this a bug ?? Everything worked perfectly until I rebooted with this
9 >new udev version. I have lots of kernel versions, but none of them will
10 >work (the last one that I've installed is
11 >gentoo-sources-2.6.14-gentoo-r4).
12 >
13 >Bye,
14 >Rafael Fernández López.
15 >
16 >
17 >
18 I saw this earlier:
19
20 >On Friday 09 December 2005 16:04, Simon Hogg wrote:
21 >
22 >
23 >>> I was suffering from this same problem and it does appear to be a bug
24 >>> in udev-077-r1 (-r2 is now in ~x86 but I've not tried it yet).
25 >>>
26 >>> The solution that someone else came up with (calr0x on the forums) was
27 >>> to run udevstart once the system is running, this causes all of the
28 >>> device nodes for the installed kernel modules to be created.
29 >>>
30 >>> Simon
31 >>
32 >>
33 >
34 >Upgraded to udev-077-r2 and did udevstart. Everything is fine now.
35 >
36 >Thanks,
37 >Mrugesh
38 >
39 Try that and see if it helps.
40
41 Dale
42 :-)
43
44 --
45 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
46
47 I have four rigs:
48
49 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
50 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
51 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
52 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.
53
54 All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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