Dev-fs is support is no where to be found in menu config, nor is it able to be called by using a prevoius working kernel config file. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.make -j4 menuconfig 2.import previous working kernel config from gentoo-2.6.12-r10 3.make -j4 modules && make -j4 bzImage 4.make modules_install 5.mv /boot/vmlinuz2.6 /boot/vmlinuz2.6.old 6.cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz2.6 7.lilo Actual Results: no dev fs support at boot up with new kernel, old kernel works fine Expected Results: machine should have booted normally. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cle266 cpudetection crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux djbfft dmx dts dv dvb dvd dvdread dxr3 eds emboss encode esd fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers java jpeg kde libg++ libsamplerate libwww mad matroska md5sum mikmod mmap mmx mng motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mpi ncurses network new-login nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdk sdl slang smp sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yv12 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
dev-fs support has been depreciated for a long time and was finally dropped in 2.6.13. welcome to udev. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
(In reply to comment #1) > dev-fs support has been depreciated for a long time and was finally dropped in > 2.6.13. > > welcome to udev. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml ok, but there is still allot of complaining from the init scripts whith dev-fs support gone, is this a problem with my install or all gentoo installs? in addition, why was udev support not a dependancy?
This is *not* a bug; devfs support has been removed from kernels >=2.6.12 by upstream [1]. Switch to udev. [2] [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/devfs-guide.xml [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
please check bug 108326 as well.
