After recent update almost all devices from /dev tree has gone. It was very hard to repair the box to make baselayout downgrade possible. It happend only on ultrasparc machine (as I upgraded all my gentoos recently). I suspect recent changes to /etc/conf.d/rc were too pragmatic.
Please, don't restrict bugs without any reason. Also, emerge --info missing.
ada ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r6 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc 3ds 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl alsa aotuv artworkextra audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bl bonobo bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdf cdparanoia cdr cgi cli crypt cscope ctype cups curl cvsgraph dba dbus dga discard-path dlloader double-precision dri dts dv dvi edl eds effects emacs encode enscript esd exif extrafilters fame fbcon ffmpeg firefox fits fixedtones flac fltk font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gcc64 gd gdbm geos ggi gif gimpprint ginac glut gml gmp gnome gnome-print gnomedb gnutls gpgme gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hardenedphp hdf iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib infopipe inifile inkjar iodbc irda isdnlog jack jack-tmpfs javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k jython latex lcms ldap leim libcaca libwww linguas_pl logrotate lua lzo mad matroska mcve memlimit mhash mikmod ming mjpeg mmap mng motif mp3 mpeg mpi musepack nas nautilus ncurses netcdf network nfs nls nptl nsplugin numeric objc odbc ogdi ogg openal opencv-cvs openexr opengl oss pam pcntl pcre pdf pdflib pdo-external pear perl php physfs plotutils plugin png portaudio posix ppds pppd python qhull qt quicktime readline reflection rhino rle ruby sdk sdl session sharedext sharedmem simplexml slang slp sndfile soap sockets speex spell spl ssl svg sysvipc szip t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tidy tiff timidity tokenizer toolbar tools truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev ultra1 vim-with-x vorbis wddx wmf xanim xchatdccserver xchattext xine xml xml2 xmlreader xmlwriter xmms xorg xpm xprint xsl xv xvid yaz yv12 zip zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
To make things easier I'm copying here version informations after successfull downgrade: ada ~ # emerge -pv baselayout These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.15-r3 [1.11.14-r8] USE="-bootstrap -build -static -unicode" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB
we changed the default RC_DEVICE_TARBALL value from "yes" to "no" in /etc/conf.d/rc this change is sane and would cause /dev to contain a lot less device nodes
I don't have this and any other Ultra1 machine anymore so no additional info will be provided.
