Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
> > I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent > > stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was > > still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did. What does > > b.g.o. say? > > I'm sure that I've come across the same problem some time in the distant > past and had to create these two nodes manually. > > However, it should be easy to prove if this is a bug or not - look in the > stage3 tar file for /dev/console and /dev/null? True enough recent stage 3 tarballs for amd64 on my mirror are either faulty or do not contain /dev/console. May 20 and 26 are faulty April 28 is OK Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What stage 3 did you download and use? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
