From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECLG6-0002bD-Ig for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:59:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85Htp4b002205; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:55:51 GMT Received: from eastrmmtao02.cox.net (eastrmmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85HqDt8026917 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:52:14 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.101] (really [70.171.8.190]) by eastrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20050905175524.UFQB20229.eastrmmtao02.cox.net@[192.168.1.101]> for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:55:24 -0400 From: Robert Crawford Organization: Florida Cycads To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone! Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:55:11 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050903101937.GA6595@daniel> <200509051031.47261.flacycads@cox.net> <200509051551.34331.stevee@gorbag.com> In-Reply-To: <200509051551.34331.stevee@gorbag.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509051355.11314.flacycads@cox.net> X-Archives-Salt: bdd2afc9-24c8-451b-85ce-e748260785ec X-Archives-Hash: 8a73ce528ff82cb221fb43d90f5dd588 Page 5-6 of a long udev thread is good reading on recent udev problems. Robert http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-355069-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-100.html On Monday 05 September 2005 10:51 am, Steve Evans wrote: > On Monday 05 Sep 2005 15:31, Robert Crawford wrote: > > I just had a similar problem after I updated udev (I think). I run ~x86 > > systems, always kept current, so I expect a few minor hiccups, even > > though I'm extremely careful with etc-update. There seems to be some > > weird stuff going on with udev, at least on my system, but after a lot of > > reading on the formum, and trying many things, I tried changing my fstab > > line > > > > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,rw,user 0 0 > > > > to this. > > > > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,rw,user 0 0 > > > > I think some rule in the new udev changed, and it wasn't creating cdroms > > and cdrom0 anymore- only /dev/hdc. > > > > I looked in /dev, and sure enough, the cdrom and cdrw links point to the > > hdc block device. > > > > Anyway, whatever it was, changing the fstab line now lets me mount cdroms > > normally, as before. > > > > Robert Crawford > > I assume that as you are running ~x86 you have upgraded to gentoo-sources > version 2.6.13. In that version devfs has been removed (well the config > option has gone, the code is still there). The /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 style of > device file name is a part of devfs, so if with earlier kernels you still > had devfs enabled in the kernel, despite running udev, then you would have > gotten the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 link. > > I am running x86 and running with udev but with devfs still in the kernel. > Yesterday I disabled devfs on one of the machines so that I could see what > would break in preparation for 2.6.13 moving to x86. I experienced exactly > your problem of /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 disappearing. Fortunately the solution > is simple, as you describe above. > > Steve > -- > ____________________________________________________________________ > Steve Evans E-mail: mailto:stevee@gorbag.com > WEB: http://www.gorbag.com > Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org > Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html > ____________________________________________________________________ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list