Bug 118867

Summary:	baselayout init scripts shouldn't check /dev/.devfsd to decide whether devfs is running or not
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Drake (RETIRED) <dsd>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-13 04:57:03 UTC

Many users actually have /dev/.devfsd on their root disk (i.e. it is there, even when devfs is not present on the system), and the Gentoo init scripts interpret this as meaning that devfs is running, so they then decide not to use udev.

This is causing problems for people migrating to kernels where devfs is no longer available. Can we improve this somehow?

One example of many:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3016638.html#3016638

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-13 05:03:52 UTC

Sorry, not sure how I missed that bug on my search.

I also just tested this by creating /dev/.devfsd on my root fs and the system booted smoothly with udev (baselayout-1.12.0_pre12). Thanks!


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109718 ***