Baselayout upgrade broke my server [SOLVED]

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1767 Location: Scotland

Hi

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291916

As per that bug, stable x86 baselayout update last night has rendered my router/firewall box un-bootable.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

It uses a wireless adapter to connect to the 'net so even masking the offending version of baselayout and downgrading is non-trivial (but can be done).

I've taken a pic of the boot failure using my phone - where's the best place to upload?
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audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4424

Anywhere, then link to it.

Have you followed this? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
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agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1767 Location: Scotland

Openrc is masked as ~x86, this is an all x86 hardened server. Baselayout update was to version 1.12.13.

Problem seems to be /dev is almost completely empty, but if I "mount --bind / /mnt/test" like post #2 of the bug report, I can see /mnt/test/dev looks much more complete. All of my /dev/sd* entries are missing though.

Bugzilla post has a bit more info in it now.

Using imageshack unless anyone knows otherwise -

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5991/dsc00030o.jpg
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject:

I updated this morning without any problems.

Just rebooted to make sure and it boots fine, udev filling /dev properly

There were 26 ._config* files under /etc that needed to be merged,
and there were a few of them that I discarded, especially in /etc/conf.d
because they got rid of some settings that were proper for my machine.

I always do a diff between the ._config* file and what it is trying to replace.

My system is amd64 mostly stable.

Don't know what to tell you.
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agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1767 Location: Scotland

I ran etc-update after the baselayout change so I don't think that's the problem. I'm wondering if e.g. udev has to be added to a runlevel to make this work.
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject:

This is how my system is, as far as udev

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1767 Location: Scotland

Emptying /proc and /sys on the box in question appears to be the fix.
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mrknowitall · Apprentice Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 173

hi,

had the same error. as suggested in the bugreport, deleting the content of proc and sys solved the problem. i can boot again. i suggest marking this thread as solved, since there is a proper solution. as for the reason itself, the bugreport should remain open.

cheers!

alex
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agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1767 Location: Scotland

Done.
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