Bug 115264 – can't boot computer with udev-077-r2, r3 and r4

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paweł Mielechowicz 2005-12-11 20:40:41 UTC]

When I wan't to boot my computer with
udev-077-r2 , r3 or r4 I get an error
and my computer stops.
I can only do ctrl-d to reboot.

I get this message:
cp: cannot stat /lib/udev/devices/*
and then my "mount" can't mount my /dev/hda1
partition. I have reiserfs on it.

so I have created a dir /lib/udev/devices , 
but still I have this error.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge udev-077-r2; #or newer
2.reboot
3.

[Comment 1 Paweł Mielechowicz 2005-12-11 20:47:23 UTC]

I forgot too add my `emerge --info` so here it si:

Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.0-beta20051209, glibc-2.3.6-r1
, 2.6.15-rc5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-rc5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
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:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/
X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/"
LANG="pl_PL.ISO8859-2"
LC_ALL="pl_PL.ISO8859-2"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts b
zip2 cdr crypt cups dri eds emboss encode exif expat fam foomaticdb fortran gcj 
gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libcaca
 libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nsplugin ogg
 oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl 
spell sse ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xm
l2 xv zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 2 Mathias Zimmermann 2005-12-12 05:04:31 UTC]

Hi

udev-077-rc4 brings the error messages befor: "fsck.ext3: No such file or
directory while trying to open /dev/hda1 The superblock could not be read or
does not ..... " away. 
But the machine can't boot with 077-rc4, so you can downgrade to udev-071 with a
live cd. Then the machine boots without any problem. So I think there is a
Problem  with udev or the baselayout.

I use 1.12.0_pre11-r3 baselayout.

[Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2005-12-12 19:59:08 UTC]

So, you are using 2.6.15-rc5?  Can you attach your kernel .config to this bug?

Also, can you give me the _exact_ messages the screen shows, during the boot
proess, and the error messages?

Also, does rebooting with 2.6.14 make things work?

[Comment 4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2005-12-12 22:58:54 UTC]

Oh, and I bet that you don't have CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT selected :)

Please enable that and try the kernel again.

[Comment 5 Mathias Zimmermann 2005-12-15 12:51:16 UTC]

Hi

You won. But where I should know that I need to activate CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT
(Userspace Events)?

But that solves the Problem!

[Comment 6 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2005-12-15 22:47:43 UTC]

You shouldn't have, that's why the kernel developers just made it very hard to
disable that kernel option for the final 2.6.15 release.