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On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. |
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> Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget |
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> about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. |
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> When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails |
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> and everything thereafter fails. |
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> I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the |
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> files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what |
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> I had to do. |
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> I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening. |
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me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the |
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power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( |
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Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, |
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mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update |
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But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome. |
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