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Bug 371263

Summary: sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.2 should populate /dev with base entries
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Maxim Konyushikhin <maxim.konyushikhin>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Maxim Konyushikhin 2011-06-12 13:39:43 UTC
This bug is related to a fresh gentoo system installed from a stage3 tarball.

If one boots a newly installed gentoo system, the boot process hangs at the moment /sbin/init is called. No error message is printed.

This happens because /dev is empty (more precisely, contains only /dev/null). /sbin/init wants some basic files like /dev/console boot. After populating /dev with base entries, system boots without problems.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from a USB stick (gentoo livecd).
2. Follow gentoo handbook: prepare root partition, unpack stage3 tarball, install base programs like grub, prepare kernel, ...).
3. Reboot. Kernel initializes itself, "VFS: Mounted rootfs ... readonly" is printed.
4. Nothing happens from this moment: system does not boot, no error message is printed.



"emerge -e system" does not help.
Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2011-06-12 16:05:41 UTC
Probably obsolete by now - udev needs to be in sysinit runlevel, but IIRC that should already be fixed in recent stage3 tarballs.
Comment 2 Maxim Konyushikhin 2011-06-12 17:56:56 UTC
udev _is_ in sysinit. I was installing the system yesterday, tarball from June, 9.
Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2011-06-13 20:38:02 UTC
The udev issue is bug 369037.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368597 ***