Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage.
>
> Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget
> about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot.
> When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails
> and everything thereafter fails.
>
> I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the
> files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what
> I had to do.
>
> I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening.

me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the 
power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :(
Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, 
mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update

But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome.