| Summary: | Udev-Guide should mention to create /dev/tty1 for gensplash/splashutils users | ||
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| Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Daniel Pielmeier <billie> |
| Component: | Other documents | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | confabulate, diox |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Daniel Pielmeier
2006-08-25 14:48:27 UTC
Hmm, You may have misconfigured something, because normally you don't need to do that.. At least i didn't. Proposing "Worksforme" grtz diox (In reply to comment #1) > Hmm, You may have misconfigured something, because normally you don't need to > do that.. At least i didn't. > > Proposing "Worksforme" > grtz > diox > When the system is up and running i have /dev/tty1. When i do the test from the guide mkdir test mount --bind / test cd test/dev ls i got console null and tty1 Isn't udev supposed to create all devices necessary? If you run udevstart after you boot do you have a tty1, or is it still missing? What I have noticed is that on one machine the fb image is shown on the console as soon as F2 becomes available in the boot process, despite the fact that I have *not* set up splash in rc-update. On another machine I must set up splash as a boot script and even then it will not come up (it says: setting framebuffer console images) until after net.eth0 has been initiated - towards the end of the boot process. I wonder if this is related to your comment about a /dev/tty1 being there all the time as opposed to waiting for it to be created by udev? -- Regards, Mick > Isn't udev supposed to create all devices necessary? If you run udevstart
> after you boot do you have a tty1, or is it still missing?
as i have posted before, when the system is up i have /dev/tty1, so i suppose it has been created by udev.
I think there i a need for the static device because all the splash things are happening before udev creates this devices.
The problem i have when using splash is that the silent mode does not allow me to switch to verbose mode and when the system is up it stucks. I just see the verbose screen, no switch to gdm for log in into X is done as normal.
You seem to have come up with a solution that worked for your system, but only because you b0rked it by deleting all those files -- nowhere does the udev guide say that mass deletion of entries in /dev is necessary, or that anything else must be removed (besides devfs, of course). The guide -- and the whole point of udev itself -- is designed so that you don't have to work with any kind of static devices, as those get to be very unmanageable, as you've proven. I've never had these kinds of problems when I switched to udev, and I can't reproduce your errors when switching from RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes/no. Never had this odd problem with gensplash, like most users, so it's safe to say that you might have been doing too much playing around in /dev. ;) If it's still a problem for you, try getting support from other users on the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org (In reply to comment #5) > You seem to have come up with a solution that worked for your system, but only > because you b0rked it by deleting all those files -- nowhere does the udev > guide say that mass deletion of entries in /dev is necessary, or that anything > else must be removed (besides devfs, of course). I have deleted this files becaue having 5200 Devices in /dev irritates me a bit. Especially now after deleting this files i have only 800 and everything works fine instead ofn the /dev/tty1 problem, which i managed by creating a static one. > Never had this odd problem with gensplash, like most users, so it's safe to > say that you might have been doing too much playing around in /dev. ;) > > If it's still a problem for you, try getting support from other users on the > forums: http://forums.gentoo.org I have discussed this already on the forum, see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/168473 where others also think it should be mentioned. For me this solved already, i just filed this bug for helping others to avoid problems. So feel free to close this bug! |