Bug 120852 – root fs on evms volume doesn't work with udev

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Mark Aikens 2006-01-29 12:54:12 UTC]

Since I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel and started using udev instead of devfs, I've had to modify the "rc" script in the baselayout package to call "/sbin/evms_activate" before checking the root fs. If this isn't done, then the evms volume device nodes don't get created in the real /dev directory.

I am using the initrd image provided by the evms people to do the initial activation but the device nodes that it creates go away once the real root is mounted and control is passed to it.

This wasn't a problem when using devfs because there was only 1 devfs that was shared between the initrd and the real system.



Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14.2-m1 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.14.2-m1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
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:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.22-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/work/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/work"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cscope cups curl dts dvd eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mbox mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt readline recode samba sdl slang snmp spell sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-01-29 13:43:59 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50711 ***