Probably a given - but udev-030-26 made my system unbootable (detailed)

[Lars]

Lars wrote:

> David Hollis wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 12:50 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>>> On Sep 18, 2004, at 04:44, Mark Mielke wrote:
>>> 
>>> > The first error was "Warning: unable to find a console" or something
>>> > to that
>>> > effect. The boot process paused. I manually created:
>>> >
>>> >     crw-------  1 root root   5,   1 Sep 17 22:18 console
>>> >
>>> > Then, it complained about /dev/null not being writable. Sure enough,
>>> > /dev/null was a regular file with bytes in it. *sigh* Created that as:
>>> >
>>> >     crw-rw-rw-  1 root root   1,   3 Feb 23  2004 null
>>> >
>>> > No luck. Booting still had major trouble. Finally I gave up:
>> 
>> I actually noticed this after I upgraded my udev.  Fortunately, I didn't
>> reboot!  I checked out my /dev directory and noticed that null was a
>> regular file and there wasn't a heckuva lot in there.  I
>> ran /sbin/udevstart and it recreated everything and life was good.  When
>> I rebooted later things came up with no problems.
>> 
> 
> 
> had the same non-booting problem and fixed it with running udevstart.
> now the only problem is that the console in rhgb and X (kde) doesn't
> show up anymore.
> 
> any hints?
> 
> 
> thanks
> lars
> 
> 
> 


update: fixed(!) my x console problem by 
adding the pts dir to /dev that was missing after running udevstart.

lars