Thanks a lot, that was it. There's an issue with genkernel too, as it didn't disabled CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED as stated during an still failing boot.
Compiled again with that key disabled, and now I'm on my favorite environment without rescue CDs. Have some polishing to do, though ;-) Thanks again Francisco On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <bil...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Francisco Ares schrieb am 13.11.2009 23:19: > > Hi > > > > After a lot of updates without rebooting (I`ve been keeping my computer > on > > during several weeks), now it can`t boot anymore. Thanks to the LiveDVD > I`m > > able to try somethings, including a "emerge --sync" and a "emerge -vuDN > > world", followed up by a "etc-update" and a "revdep-rebuild" - nothing > > strange and no results. > > > > The error message is like this (I had to copy it by hand, sorry for any > > typo): > > > > *Press I to enter interactive mod > > * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ok] > > *** Skipping mount of /sys as /sys/kernel exists > > ** *** Mounting /dev ... > [ok] > > ** ***** Starting udevd ... > [ok] > > ** > > ** ***** Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... > [ok] > > ** > > ** ***** Assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist > ** > > ** ***** Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... > [ok] > > ** > > ** ***** Caching service dependencies ... > ** > > [ok]** > > Can't open /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0 > > failed to configure resolution and icon positioning > > Failed to load theme 'livecd-2007.0' > > ** ***** Checking root filesystem ... > > Failed to open the device '/dev/sda9': No such file or directory > > > > > > ** ***** Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( > > Give root password for maintenance > > (or type Control-D to continue): > > ** ** ** > > *Giving root password and listing the contents of the '/dev' directory, > > there are very few entries, none for my disk partitions, for example. > > > > I`ve already re-emerged udev, baselayout, and even built a new kernel - > > currently using 2.6.27-r7 and tried 2.6.30-r8 (I guess there`s nothing to > do > > with the kernel, but I've built it just in case) > > > > Most probably I missed some messages during the ebuilds of the updates > I've > > been applying. > > > > Any ideas on where to look for? > > > > Thanks a lot! > > Francisco > > I guess this is baselayout-1. Please take a look at bug #291916 [1] > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/291916 > > -- > Daniel Pielmeier > > -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
