Bug 99072 – /dev/ fs trashed, explanation given to clean up does not work

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Heitzso 2005-07-14 20:47:12 UTC]

recent emerge update, then rebooted
main ALT-F1 window flags that /dev/
is broken and to follow these blat-blat-blat
steps to fix.
I followed those steps, twice, rebooting
between sequences, to no avail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.reboot
2.see error message re broken /dev
3.follow instructions and reboot but still get broken /dev message

Actual Results:  
on boot see broken /dev message on console

Expected Results:  
either /dev not broken on the message re how to fix should work

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
dev-lang/python:     2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
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, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr
clamav crypt ctype cups curl dba dbm dga directfb divx4linux doc dv dvdr dvdread
eds emboss encode esd fam fame flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gb gcj gd gdbm
gif gimpprint gnome gnomedb gnuplot gnustep gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit
libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir matrox mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3
mp4live mpeg mysql ncurses nentwork nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib
perl php plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby
samba sasl scanner sdl session slang soap speex spell sqlite sse2 ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb
v4l videos vorbis wavelan wxwindows xanim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xv xvid xvmc
zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-07-14 23:09:47 UTC]

If it is really broken, then 

mkdir /mnt/fixit
mount --bind / /mnt/fixit
mknod /mnt/fixit/dev/console c 5 1
mknod /mnt/fixit/dev/null c 1 3 
umount /mnt/fixit
rmdir /mnt/fixit

does fix it.

More likely, you just forgot to cp  /etc/issue.devfix /etc/issue after.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40987 ***