>>>> My system is uptodate with the current testing repo. During bootup today >>>> I noticed the error message: >>>> /etc/rc.sysinit: line 364: /dev/tty[0-9]*: no such file or directory >>>> To my surprise, only /dev/tty was present, but none of tty0..9. Instead >>>> there was a device literally named '/dev/tty[0-9]*' !! I deleted the >>>> latter, and attempted to create the missing ones with mknod. But I think >>>> I took the wrong major number, and now my system has started to behave a >>>> bit crazy... Any idea what I should do to restore it to sanity? >>> rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules > ... and back! That was it indeed. Ah, well, how long did I live with > that antediluvian udev.rules file? It was dated March 2008 and did not > even belong to the udev package... Wonder what ill it caused otherwise. > Well. Gone now. Thanks again. That file is a real mistery, I didn't have it (I have probably removed it long time ago) but a friend had it timestamped at 2007 -- damjan
