Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. A missing /dev/console stops the boot process here. It boots without /dev/null, but only after udev spews out a

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. A missing /dev/console stops the boot process here. It

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-25, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-24 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-25, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 15:48:48 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: You are still able to see the output from all the init scripts? yes That's interesting, because on my

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every boot - and it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries. I have a server running that hets that

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs@nsn.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional installation step to populate the /dev directory when using recent stage3 snapshots? One usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Cunningham
2009/1/21 Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinrichs@nsn.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 + schrieb ext Grant Edwards: I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional installation step to populate the /dev directory when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:17 +, Nick Cunningham wrote: But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up with problems such as no console during startup. IIRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards: Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken. They either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these: Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev is in used is just stupid. I'm glad they've fixed that know.

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009 17:48:27 schrieb Grant Edwards: Then all the stage3 tarballs I've ever seen are broken. They either contain 5000+ entries, or nothing but these: Yes they are. Having 5000+ entries in there while udev

[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

2009-01-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-21, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: I noticed the same thing in the install I did a few days ago. Later in that install grub failed to install and after rebooting, my /dev directory was missing just about everything. Here's the /dev directory in the chroot'ed environment I