Bug 102710 – installer fails to emerge baselayout properly

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Leung Ki Chi 2005-08-16 07:02:15 UTC]

In a stage 3 + GRP + dynamic install, the installer fails to emerge baselayout
properly.

The system displays this error on booting:
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Your system seems to be missing critical device files
in /dev !  Although you may be running udev or devfs,
the root partition is missing these required files !

To rectify this situation, please do the following:
mkdir /mnt/fixit
mount --bind / /mnt/fixit
cp -a /dev/* /mnt/fixit/dev/
umount /mnt/fixit
rmdir /mnt/fixit

You may refer to these instructions at /etc/issue.
If you previously had an issue file, it has been
backed up at /etc/issue.devfix.

Thanks for using Gentoo ! :)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40987
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I am unable to tell what was missing in /dev , as I did "emerge -1 baselayout"
which fixed the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-08-16 07:43:01 UTC]

It looks like baselayout doesn't create the required /dev nodes when installed
via a package.

[Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2005-08-16 08:01:12 UTC]

looking at the ebuild for 1.11.13, it does it (calls create_dev_nodes()) in
pkg_postinst()

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2005-08-16 09:03:08 UTC]

I found the problem. My original code for building the stage3 had called MAKEDEV
manually within the chroot. I commented this out after hearing that the
baselayout ebuild had been fixed to do this in pkg_postinst(). After further
investigation, it *does* build it, but it doesn't move it into /dev unless the
'bootstrap' or 'build' USE flags are in effect. I've uncommented the code to
manually call MAKEDEV to populate /dev within the chroot. Please test the latest
CVS snapshot.

[Comment 4 Leung Ki Chi 2005-08-16 16:29:11 UTC]

I have tested with the 20050816 snapshot. The installer now creates lots of
device nodes in /dev, including /dev/null and /dev/console .

So I guess this bug is verified closed. :-)

[Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2005-08-16 16:35:11 UTC]

Always good to hear ;) Thanks for all your help so far.

[Comment 6 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) 2006-03-24 13:46:32 UTC]

Moving to Release Media/Installer.