Bug 252305 – sys-fs/udev-135: failed to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Lucas 2008-12-23 19:30:03 UTC]

Greetings,
after my last "emerge @system" - Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r5, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" (which included an update to udev-135 and openrc-0.4.0), my system refused to boot because of a not starting udev.

The output:
* Mounting /proc...
* Mounting /sys...
*   udev uses addon code which is deprecated
*   and may not be available in the futur.
* Mounting /dev...
/lib64/rcscripts/addons/udev-start.sh: line 26: _start: command not found
* Error: udev failed to start
...

In the end, the system leaves me in the maintenance console without a filesystem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Downgrading udev to the version udev-125-r2
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I worked around this problem by chrooting into the system from a LiveCD and downgrading udev to the version udev-125-r2.
But If someone has clue of what is going on, then I am still interested, since I doubt that it is a good idea to block any updates to udev forever.



Portage 2.1.6 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r5-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2200+-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r8
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -s -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -m3dnow"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -s"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://src.gentoo.pl http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://gentoo.po.opole.pl   ftp://mirror.icis.pcz/pl/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl"
LANG="pl_PL"
LC_ALL="pl_PL"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="pl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X acl alsa apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt dba dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdrw fortran gd gif gpm iconv isdnlog java jpeg jpg midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pam pcre perl pic png pppd python readline reflection session spl srvdir sse ssl sysfs tcpd truetype unicode x86 xorg xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2008-12-23 19:42:14 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252288 ***