From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-136235-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1S7Qwb-0000Y4-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:35:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C242E0B24; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFB7E0BC1 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2107 invoked by uid 3782); 13 Mar 2012 12:34:03 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B273.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.178.115]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:34:01 +0100 Received: (qmail 3493 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Mar 2012 12:33:05 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:33:05 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-( Message-ID: <20120313123305.GA3457@acm.acm> References: <20111115062115.GA3262@waltdnes.org> <20111121104724.GC7461@waltdnes.org> <20111201194544.GD4455@waltdnes.org> <20120217234045.GA25390@waltdnes.org> <20120311090912.GA23850@waltdnes.org> <20120312092432.GA2959@acm.acm> <20120313071455.GB23544@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120313071455.GB23544@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 31d690fe-17f0-430e-bc49-519f144025b3 X-Archives-Hash: 8fa3ea61f13b4c969c184752c8b0d7e2 Hello, Walter. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:14:55AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:24:32AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote > Sorry, mdev is not for you, it looks like udev is a mandatory > dependancy for lvm2. I tried "emerge -pv lvm2" and it came back with... > waltdnes@d530 ~ $ emerge -pv lvm2 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-fs/udev-151-r4" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: > - sys-fs/udev-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) > /etc/portage/package.mask: > I'll update my instructions to mention this. Thanks for your help. > Even a negative result, i.e. knowing what doesn't work, is one more > piece of information in my quest. It seems it's not quite as simple as that. I've looked at it again, and after booting (unsuccessfuly (without non-root partitions)), the devices /dev/md-0, /dev/md-1, ........ existed. Also existing was the directory /dev/mapper, containing devices like /dev/mapper/vg-usr. (They're sort of symlinks, I think). When I mounted all of these LVM partitions by hand, my system worked (modulo the services which had failed to start). So I then modified my /etc/fstab to use /dev/mapper/vg-usr, and my system came up (almost). What didn't work was X-Windows - when I started it, the keyboard and mouse were dead. (Good job the reset button still worked.) I don't know if booting this way loses any LVM functionality. I haven't tested that out yet. I suspect it will. The only other wierd thing was, when I restarted my "working" system, eth0 was missing. When I rebooted, it was there again. > -- > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).