Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> 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.
> 
Hey guys ,

always read post emerge messages!! Portage always tells me when to update config files!