start_udev and X crashing after latest FC3T2 update
Clyde Kunkel
clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Wed Sep 29 23:39:19 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 18:46, Øivind Hoel wrote:
> ons, 29,.09.2004 kl. 17.30 -0400, skrev Clyde Kunkel:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:16, Brian Millett wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 15:51 -0400, Clyde Kunkel wrote:
> > > > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> > > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> > > > No such file or directory.
> > > > (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
> > > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
> > >
> > > This is the problem. No mouse. Umm. It also looked like other /dev
> > > stuff was missing. Have you upgraded your kernel lately? You might
> > > want to try to remake the initrd. I seem to remember that this was a
> > > problem in the past when people upgraded a udev package with an initrd
> > > that did not use the new udev package. If you have, then just ignore
> > > me.
> > > IE:
> > > mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.549.img 2.6.8-1.549
> > >
> > > --
> > > Brian Millett - [ Ombuds Wellington, "The Quality of Mercy"]
> > > "Anything a telepath sees while inside a defendant's mind is
> > > inadmissible
> > > evidence."
> > >
> > >
> >
> > mkinitrd didn't work....something causing probs with /dev/null in the
> > profile scripts and atd is not starting. Don't know if there is a
> > relationship there or not.
> >
> > Still probing...not giving up.
> >
> > Recap: updated nicely working FC3T2 today before I saw the udev hold.
> > Couldn't startx. Fixed udev, still can't startx. Something borked when
> > udev failed????
> >
>
> I solved it by downloading and rpm -ivh --force udev-032-2.i386.rpm ;>
Thanks, worth a try. Isn't it the same as manually fixing the if..fi
problem?
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