When I try to boot my system. I get an error stating that /dev/hda9 (my root partition) does not exist. After playing around, I found that devfsd is not started after starting that, /dev/hda9 fsck's ok. The only other error message I get is a bit sooner, stating: rm: cannot remove '/dev/.devfsd' operation not permitted Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on my computer I can't really post emerge info, my system is mostly down. I can copy it by hand if needed.... Other things that may be important: I'm using "~x86". I just did an update before I rebooted. I can't think of anything I could have done to cause this (I didn't edit any init.d files for example)
I am experiencing a similar problem. I downgraded app-sys/baselayout from 1.8.6.4-rc1 to 1.8.5.8 and the bulk of my problems are resolved. I strongly suspect the new baselayout is to blame.
Ok. I got around to booting my system up with a live cd. I downgraded baselayout, and now my system boots again. Looks like this package is the problem. This probably needs to be masked.
Confirmed here as well. The problem happens in /sbin/rc, where it checks whether devfsd is mounted. The following is a diff between the old revision (rc-scripts-1.4.2.8/sbin/rc from baselayout-1.8.5.8) and the new one (rc-scripts-1.4.3.4/sbin/rc from baselayout-1.8.6.4-r1): - mymounts="$(awk '$3 ~ "devfs" { print $0 }' /proc/mounts)" - if [ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -z "${mymounts}" ] + mymounts="`awk '($3 == "devfs") { print "yes"; exit 0 }' /proc/mounts`" + if [ -e "/dev/.devfsd" -a "${mymounts}" != "yes" ] It seems as if the new awk line isn't working quite right. I short-circuited it with a "mymounts='yes'" directly after the awk line, and everything works. Note that this line also happens twice: once before removing /dev/.devfsd (line 96), and again before starting devfsd (line 130). Accordingly, devfsd didn't start here, and I had the same fsck error.
Down grade to gawk-3.1.1-r2. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18127 ***
