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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F00C83.1030506@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EF9A34.40402@vista-express.com>

>> A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i
>> deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work.
>> So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After
>> installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my
>> case /dev/tty1.
>>
>> Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem!
>>
>> It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on
>> the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working
>> properly. You can fix the problem by doing:
>>
>> mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp
>> mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1
>> umount /lib/splash/tmp
>>
>> I hope this helps to avoid confusion!
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea?  Can I just move them and
> then copy them back?  Or is what I have normal number wise?
> 
> Full of questions ain't I?
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

I have filed a bug [1] to gentoo documentation for adding a hint to 
splashutils users.
Until now i just get a: "WORKSFORME, i must have missconfigured something!".

But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early 
moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils?

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145118

Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-26  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-25  9:04 [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev sdoma
2006-08-25  9:32 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-25 12:19   ` sdoma
2006-08-25 20:56   ` Dale
2006-08-25 21:18     ` Daniel Pielmeier
2006-08-26  0:47       ` Dale
2006-08-26  1:11         ` Richard Fish
2006-08-26  3:19           ` Dale
2006-08-26  8:55         ` Daniel Pielmeier [this message]
2006-08-26  9:16           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-26  9:29             ` Daniel Pielmeier
2006-08-25  9:50 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-25 19:20   ` Mick
2006-08-25 21:06     ` Richard Fish
2006-08-25 22:53       ` Mick
2006-08-26  8:16         ` Neil Bothwick

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