From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGu10-00076S-12 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:59:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7Q8vaLm012667; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:57:36 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7Q8tXOg006045 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:55:33 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so1047285nfc for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:55:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=googlemail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VUIxHgIN/BMRungz7xxen/CpDY2Jg7AUKWAo5Yt4ltgPRjpeQ/pnhVbxeW5r0SOuDq4K7RSEco7GwolKLoB9JWS6x0t45Uz738cS2kznVxVKqpMg3hIJPN5IIHpXpWxXiHvZeD7Bs+K/8e1C6Nsm4KZlKDnQiVJAw/LQwt8iG+c= Received: by 10.49.92.18 with SMTP id u18mr6433640nfl; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?84.57.185.34? ( [84.57.185.34]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id v20sm8260923nfc.2006.08.26.01.55.32; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44F00C83.1030506@googlemail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200 From: Daniel Pielmeier User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060801) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev References: <1156496679.10001.13.camel@frankies> <200608251132.37823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <44EF63F9.7040300@vista-express.com> <44EF6920.2070004@googlemail.com> <44EF9A34.40402@vista-express.com> In-Reply-To: <44EF9A34.40402@vista-express.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2054fd4-715c-4665-9f1c-99a88b28b504 X-Archives-Hash: 22f26470d3cae0bcf716e59425751bb7 >> 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list