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
