On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:09:27PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote: > I see how this happened: ~forever was just last November. > > - /dev/MAKEDEV exists on the disk after original installation > - forget to cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV all > - on boot, /sbin/init creates mfs partition and mounts over /dev > - it then runs the disk's MAKEDEV to populate mfs > - after the first update where MAKEDEV changes, postinstall deletes > the MAKEDEV that is on the disk, and writes the new one to mfs > - on reboot, there is no longer a MAKEDEV on the disk for /sbin/init to use. > > no more mystery...
Ouch. I never see that because in such configurations (when I create them on purpose) I move MAKEDEV from /dev/ to /etc for ease of later maintenance (and postinstall deals with that). We should make it recoginze your situation and fail instead of updating. Martin
