Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

Hi,

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler
<blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Got the above error on first reboot of fresh system.

Was udev compiled running the kernel in question? (Most probably not
needed, though)
Is kernel-headers matching that kernel version? That would probably be
an absolute requirement... It may be a lower version than the running
kernel, but things will fail miserably if it's a higher version.

> Only link to this particular error in google is from a
> German site which I can't read.

Well, Googling for the email's subject as a phrase did reveal ...
nothing. At least I could have translated the message if I was able to
get there...

> hmmm, just noticed I can't use ctl-alt-del. Does
> nothing. 
> 
> #reboot and #shutdown result in:
> 
> /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
> init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory

That's because you're in the emergency console and there is no "init"
running. In order to halt/restart you need to add the "-f" flag. Beware
that you should unmount/remount r/o your partitions before resetting.
I.e.:
# umount /some/manually/mounted/partition
# mount -o ro,remount /dev/device-in-use /mounted/partition/in/use
# sync
# reboot -f

-hwh
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