David Hollis wrote:
When I freshly installed a system using the RC1 candidate isos, I had trouble until I took the advice of an RH employee and ran udestart as root and had trouble until I rebooted the computer. Before running this command manually, I could not burn CDs. This is not as bad as not booting, but a pecularity.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. Jim -- Ha. For once you're both wrong but not where you are thinking. - Larry McVoy to Linus Torvalds on linux-kernel |