Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:44:53 -0400 > Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700 >>>> Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer >>>>> to postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put >>>>> >>>>>> sys-fs/udev-171-r5 >>>>> >>>>> in /etc/portage/package.mask ? >>>> >>>>> =sys-fs/udev-181 >>>> >>>> would be better. Rather mask the first version that causes issues >>>> and all subsequent versions. With your suggestions, there may be >>>> future updates between 171 and 181 (without initrd issues) that you >>>> want, but you can't use them as you masked them. >>> >>> Done, thanks. Thank you volker as well. >>> >>> allan >> >> I am now unable to update world >> >> Total: 26 packages (20 upgrades, 3 new, 1 in new slot, 2 >> reinstalls, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 604,681 kB Conflict: 3 >> blocks >> > > I see you already have the solution from later in the thread. > > Just don't do what I did and act like a dumbass like so: > > 1. emerge world including a couple days ago including udev-182 > 2. don't read the elog > 3. miss the part where it says CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y is required (and you > don't have it enabled) > 4. don't run conf-update > 5. walk away in blissful unawareness never rebooting just suspend/resume > > Then: > > 1. Crawl out of bed one fine morning facing a deadline > 2. Approach computer > 3. Shit. The bloody thing hit some weird segfault again overnight and > killed X > 4. Hmmmmmmmmm, virtual consoles don't seem to work. Machine frozen > 5. Press big red power button > > Only to find: > > 1. Nothing starts up properly, machine essentially useless > 2. Oh dear. Other than /, nothing mounts. /dev is almost empty > 3. That deadline didn't go away > > To fix: > > 1. reboot into maintenance mode > 2. <phew>, /usr is part of / so no mounting issues for that > 3. find copy of elog, read it > 4. configure and build kernel > 5. Reboot > 6. Didn't work. Scratch head, look around. Oh, hang on, the kernel was > installed to /boot on /, not the real /boot as that couldn't mount > 7. Reboot, fiddle with grub menu, desperately trying to remember how > that shit all works again > 8. Finally grub finds the new kernel and boots > 9. Lots of errors, not quite the same as before. Something > about /sbin/udevd not found. Ohhhhhh shit...... > 10. Reboot again to maintenance mode > 11. Poke around, bang head. Idiot! You forgot to run conf-update > 12. conf-update lets everything else know udevd is now > in /lib64/udev/udevd > 13. reboot. Finally, everything works again. > 14. Realize new kernel is now in a directory underneath the /boot mount > (exactly where it can't be gotten to). Read man mount, search for --bind > 15. Curse, swear, now 90 minutes late. Get on motorbike and roar off to > work in a foul mood dicing death by riding between motorcars causing > taking 2 old ladies by surprise and scaring 3 wandering cats witless > > > Moral of the story: > > Read the elog right now and do what it says :-) > > >
Dang, maybe Gentoo is for me. I have those days too. Remember hal? Hmmmm, if you have those days, maybe I am smarter than I think. ROFL Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
