On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
<da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
>  This item just appeared after eix-sync:
>
> HTPC ~ # eselect news read
> 2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking
>  Title                     udev-181 unmasking
>  Author                    William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org>
>  Posted                    2012-03-16
>  Revision                  1
>
> udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19.
>
> This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
> udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your
> system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.
>
> An initramfs which does this is created by
>>=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or
>>=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be
> sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr.
>
> Also, if you are using OpenRC, you must upgrade to >= openrc-0.9.9.
>
> For more information on why this has been done, see the following URL:
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
>
>
>
> Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon.
>
> Houston, we have a problem!

You can always try Walter's et. al. mdev replacement:

http://www.waltdnes.org/mdev/

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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