Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 29 November 2009 03:07:14 BRM wrote: If not, fixing it is quite trivially easy: Get a copy of any recent liveCD or rescue image that you can boot, and boot into it. It will find your drives using whatever conventions it uses, and let you mount your gentoo partitions just like

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 20:06 -0800, BRM wrote: [... way too much background info removed] BREVITY! We don't want to have to read about what you had on your sandwich for lunch or the fight you had with your girl to get to the meat of what you're trying to say ;-). Since you didn't paste the link

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 28 November 2009 06:06:59 BRM wrote: So, I have been running my laptop for quite a while with the current software - it's been well over a week since I last synced and installed software - when I upgraded to KDE4; and I do believe I've rebooted several times since. Today, I

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Saturday 28 November 2009 06:06:59 BRM wrote: During boot, udevd (version 146, btw) complains about error getting signalfd. I did some basic hunting and this seems to have been a big problem over the last year. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 28 November 2009 17:04:10 BRM wrote: You also mention /dev/hda and the context implies it is a physical disk. Unless you have ancient disk hardware and unusual module setup, your disks will be /dev/sda. Do you have references to /dev/dh** in /etc/fstab? That won;t work as

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Saturday 28 November 2009 17:04:10 BRM wrote: You also mention /dev/hda and the context implies it is a physical disk. Unless you have ancient disk hardware and unusual module setup, your disks will be

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 28 November 2009 18:31:04 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Saturday 28 November 2009 17:04:10 BRM wrote: You also mention /dev/hda and the context implies it is a physical disk. Unless you have ancient disk hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:06:59 -0800 (PST) BRM wrote: ...[snip]... Either way, I need to figure out how to get read-access to the root partition again. Any advice on either of the above (or other options), and more importantly (since any options depend on it) how to get read-write access to

Re: [gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-28 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Saturday 28 November 2009 18:31:04 BRM wrote: snip I do have sources for linux kernel 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 available, but then I need to be able to write to the read-only fs. Guess I could probably do that using the

[gentoo-user] udev broken...

2009-11-27 Thread BRM
So, I have been running my laptop for quite a while with the current software - it's been well over a week since I last synced and installed software - when I upgraded to KDE4; and I do believe I've rebooted several times since. Today, I rebooted back into my old Win2k partition - to do some