----- Original Message ---- From: Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> On Saturday 28 November 2009 06:06:59 BRM wrote: > > During boot, udevd (version 146, btw) complains about "error getting > > signalfd". I did some basic hunting and this seems to have been a big > > problem over the last year. I'm running kernel 2.6.25, built on 9/27, from > > the gentoo source tree. The system then breaks while trying to do some > > drive mounts, and I end up in maintenance mode - with read-only > > partitions. <snip> > > The system seems to have the correct partition mounted for the root > > partition, but it doesn't report it as /dev/hdaX yet. However, I need > > access to the other partitions to get to portage. (Due to size of portage, > > and other complications, I've taken to putting it on another partition and > > mapping it. Usually this hasn't been a problem.) > Actual error messages please :-) > Let's start with what is in dmesg.
dmesg doesn't provide any useful information for this error. Nor could I find anything in the /var/log/messages. The only error I got was the "error getting signalfd" from udev's startup at boot. > You also mention /dev/hda and the context implies it is a physical disk. > Unless you have ancient disk hardware and unusual module setup, your disks > will be /dev/sda. Do you have references to /dev/dh** in /etc/fstab? That > won;t work as udev will not name them that way Actually, yes - it is a 2003 Dell D600 with a standard ATA/IDE hard drive. So yes - it would be /dev/hda; and yes, udev has been working fine until this issue. Ben
