udev message in kernel 2.6.14

socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

I've updated my kernel from version 2.6.11 to 2.6.14. When I restart, everything seems to be allright, but I do get a message at boot-time saying kernel > 2.6.13 in gentoo are highly recommended to work with udev. (or something like that :lol:

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I thought everything was working with udev already. I followed the udev guide on the page. What I couldn't see, is how I set udev to start at boot time automatically! Do I even need to do so? there is no /etc/init.d/udev , how do I start it then?

Strange thing is, everything seems to be working, but I still get that message for 15 seconds on startup....

Thanks for help!

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

My guess is that your baselayout is outdated. Normally udev starts automatically on boot. However, you might want to take a look at the line

socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

Thanks for the tip, but it didn't work.

I have the recent baselayout, and setting RC_DEVICES to udev dosn't change anything.
Any other idea?

tuxmin · l33t Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 838 Location: Heidelberg

Strange, works perfect for me with kernel 2.6.24... Maybe you should try to reemerge udev and unmerge devfsd?

Alex!!
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socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

Nope, still not working...

I still had devfsd installed and unmerged it now. But I still get the message!

socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

Does no one knows an answer? How do I get rid of the 15 sec message at startup?!?
Plase :lol:

jcolson · n00b Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

same question..... bump

dsd · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

does /dev/.devfsd appear on the root filesystem?
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socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

Yes it does! Is that a good or a bad thing?

dsd · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

bad, remove it manually
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socken · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 46

THAT WORKED!!!

Thanks alot! Altough my internal Touchpad is not working anymore.. But I guess these are the common problems when switching to udev, so I'll probably find that out somehow!

But can you shortly explain to me, what /dev/.devfs does then? Did it try to start up the old devfs or simply none of those two?

Thanks again!

dsd · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject:

devfsd is supposed to mount the kernels devfs 'virtual' filesystem at /dev and then create /dev/.devfsd

so the .devfsd file is always supposed to exist on the *virtual* filesystem, and is never supposed to appear on disk.

gentoo's init scripts use the existance of this file to check whether devfsd is running or not. however, this seems inaccurate, because for some unknown reason, some users actually have /dev/.devfsd on their disk.
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dsd · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject:

this is bug 109718, which is fixed in the unstable version of baselayout (1.12). i just confirmed this for myself.
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