On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:49:47AM -0500, James Homuth wrote:
> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after
> reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0
> swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, booting to
> an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine.
> Also, and this is the strange part. It boots no problem, so the OS is able
> to mount at least /dev/hda3, even though from the command line I'm not
> seeing it. I'm probably missing something completely dead obvious (it's
> after midnight here and all), and Google's turning up nothing, so if someone
> could kindly slap me in the face with it, that'd be appreciated. Thanks
> either way for whatever help comes my way.
Hi,
I just had to restart my computer (power issues :( ) in the middle of
an update (well, it was more like 'just before the end';) and after
restart I have the same problem as you, no /dev/sd[ab]* files...
My first guess was that I rebooted without updating the config files, so
I ran etc-update (there were some udev config files as well as init
script) and rebooted, but that didn't help.
It is certainly not a problem with drivers not being in kernel, as the
kernel sees the disks and partitions (see below), so I just run
tail -n +3 /proc/partitions | while read maj min size name ; do mknod
/dev/$name b $maj $min ; done
/etc/init.d/localmount pause; /etc/init.d/localmount start
to get everything mounted again...
That means it will have to be an udev (or even openrc) problem.
The last update of udev did in fact say this:
* Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...
* CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED: should not be set. But it is.
* CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2: should not be set. But it is.
* CONFIG_IDE: should not be set. But it is.
* Please check to make sure these options are set correctly.
* Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems.
*
* udev-151 does not support Linux kernel before version 2.6.25!
* For a reliable udev, use at least kernel 2.6.27
* Your kernel version (2.6.28-gentoo-r2) is new enough to run udev-151
reliably.
I didn't want to mess with the kernel right now, but I gues that's the
first thing to try...
I'll report when I rebuild & reboot...
yoyo
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Kernel can see the partitions just fine:
julka dev # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
7 0 512000 loop0
8 0 199148544 sda
8 1 18940603 sda1
8 2 32218357 sda2
8 3 2152710 sda3
8 4 1 sda4
8 5 145830006 sda5
8 16 312571224 sdb
8 17 312568641 sdb1
julka dev # ls /sys/block/
hda/ loop1/ loop3/ loop5/ loop7/ ram1/ ram11/ ram13/ ram15/ ram3/ ram5/
ram7/ ram9/ sdb/
loop0/ loop2/ loop4/ loop6/ ram0/ ram10/ ram12/ ram14/ ram2/ ram4/ ram6/
ram8/ sda/
julka dev # ls /sys/block/sd*
/sys/block/sda:
bdi dev ext_range power range ro sda2 sda4 size stat
uevent
capability device holders queue removable sda1 sda3 sda5 slaves
subsystem
/sys/block/sdb:
bdi capability dev device ext_range holders power queue range
removable ro sdb1 size slaves stat subsystem uevent
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