On Montag 16 März 2009, Justin wrote: > 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!
yes, but that does not help you in case of an accidental power failure before you had a chance to update the config files.
