Hey all,
I'm running ~x86 and 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 and something broke my system bootup.
I got the issue resolved and so don't really care anymore, and since I'm
running but I thought I'd let the community know for info's sake. (I know
that I'm grateful for the fixes people post to this list.)
After upgrading udev (and maybe other stuff), I get a critical error on
startup after a bazillion "cannot change owner, object doesn't exist" or
somethign like that for a whole bunch of /dev entries. I resolved the
issue by booting a 2.4 kernel, mounting /var (mount /var), remount / (mount
-o remount /), downgrading udev (echo =sys-fs/udev-035
>> /etc/portage/package.mask; emerge udev), (not sure if the preceeding is
necessary), rebooting to 2.6 logging into single user mode, remounting /
(mount -o remount /), deleting or moving /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2,
rebooting (maybe unnecessary), recreating null and console (mknod /dev/null
c 1 3; mknod /dev/console c 5 1), tar bzipping /dev (tar
jcvpf /dev /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2) and rebooting.
I have no idea why I had to do this, but it works and that's just the way
things are I guess.
So if this happens, you or your grandmother whose machine you installed
Gentoo ~x86 on ain't got no excuse to not fix up your box and be back up in
no time. (cat dead.letter > /dev/granny)
--
And another thing... glibc-2.3.4.20041006 won't compile so I'm stuck with
2.3.4.20040808-r1. That's just the way things are I guess.
PS2: (Who are all these punks who said if I use a few ~x86 packages (I use >
12), I might as well go all the way to a ~x86 system?) No hard feelings
but I think my system probably gets trashed more often and emerge -u world
fails more often (there needs to be a convenient way to automatically keep
doing 'emerge -u world' after a package fails. Maybe that's an option by
now; I hope so, cuz echo xyz >> package.mask and doing emerge -u world
again is a waste of my time.)
Peace out,
-Jared
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
I'm running ~x86 and 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 and something broke my system bootup.
I got the issue resolved and so don't really care anymore, and since I'm
running but I thought I'd let the community know for info's sake. (I know
that I'm grateful for the fixes people post to this list.)
After upgrading udev (and maybe other stuff), I get a critical error on
startup after a bazillion "cannot change owner, object doesn't exist" or
somethign like that for a whole bunch of /dev entries. I resolved the
issue by booting a 2.4 kernel, mounting /var (mount /var), remount / (mount
-o remount /), downgrading udev (echo =sys-fs/udev-035
>> /etc/portage/package.mask; emerge udev), (not sure if the preceeding is
necessary), rebooting to 2.6 logging into single user mode, remounting /
(mount -o remount /), deleting or moving /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2,
rebooting (maybe unnecessary), recreating null and console (mknod /dev/null
c 1 3; mknod /dev/console c 5 1), tar bzipping /dev (tar
jcvpf /dev /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2) and rebooting.
I have no idea why I had to do this, but it works and that's just the way
things are I guess.
So if this happens, you or your grandmother whose machine you installed
Gentoo ~x86 on ain't got no excuse to not fix up your box and be back up in
no time. (cat dead.letter > /dev/granny)
--
And another thing... glibc-2.3.4.20041006 won't compile so I'm stuck with
2.3.4.20040808-r1. That's just the way things are I guess.
PS2: (Who are all these punks who said if I use a few ~x86 packages (I use >
12), I might as well go all the way to a ~x86 system?) No hard feelings
but I think my system probably gets trashed more often and emerge -u world
fails more often (there needs to be a convenient way to automatically keep
doing 'emerge -u world' after a package fails. Maybe that's an option by
now; I hope so, cuz echo xyz >> package.mask and doing emerge -u world
again is a waste of my time.)
Peace out,
-Jared
--
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