On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 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.
I'll say :-) Actually, sometimes I think MKNOD was really cool and just do everything static. I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was dropping off the air one router at a time, my desktop machine was panicing after 4 minutes of use (so that's why I stopped using it 6 months ago!) and I had to use putty on the GF's Thinkpad to do my bit to rescue all this. Putty sucks, really badly. The only thing that sucks worse than Putty on Windows is Putty on Symbian, even on a Nokia Communicator with a semi-decent keyboard (for a phone) :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
