Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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. > Hey guys ,
always read post emerge messages!! Portage always tells me when to update config files!
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