From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPfRx-0000A7-3b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:57:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB8E2E03CF; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1BEE03CF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:57:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0A65457AA6 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:57:01 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:56:55 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots? Message-ID: <20090121155655.466edba0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <1232524334.9583.13.camel@mymachine> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs38 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/qeguaJijY95H6KXx6i27Vux"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e1554d72-4365-4521-9c77-a7c615c72e9e X-Archives-Hash: d3070a846f0bac05e08181e3d000424a --Sig_/qeguaJijY95H6KXx6i27Vux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +0000, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a > > reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up > > with problems such as no console during startup. > IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by udev so i > would check that udev is installed and working properly, if you use > openrc then this could be the cause as openrc now starts udev through > normal scripts i think, sometimes on upgrade from baselayout 1 they may > not be automatically added to the right runlevels. You still need /dev/console in the dev directory of the root partition, along with /dev/null. Anything else is a waste of disk space and inodes as the static /dev/devices are hidden as soon as udev starts. If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries.=20 --=20 Neil Bothwick Do not merely believe in miracles; rely on them. * Finagle --Sig_/qeguaJijY95H6KXx6i27Vux Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl3RcwACgkQum4al0N1GQO6CQCgo/mQSUEnNCciPQrhssMWBKb4 PwIAoMqkpsHU/k1lnNPRBhg3wnGXeR5I =MYec -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/qeguaJijY95H6KXx6i27Vux--