On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. > > Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step till later, forget > about it in the rush of trying to get work done, and then need to reboot. > When the machine boots, sysfs does not mount, the proc init script fails > and everything thereafter fails. > > I suppose it's possible to boot into single user mode and manually edit the > files in /etc. But in my case it was not at all obvious that this was what > I had to do. > > I had to boot off a rescue USB stick and chroot to see what was happening.
me too - and it wasn't even a voluntary reboot. I stepped on the switch of the power chord - and first I thought my raid was fucked up :( Luckily I have an usb stick with systemrescuecd on it around - booted from it, mounted everything, chroot+cfg-update But it sucked. A lot. devfs never was such troublesome.
