Hi, A couple of days ago I did an update world. After that my system boots right up and I can log in, but none of my /dev entries have been created. This means my mouse, cdrw and anything that is created in /etc/devfsd.conf is not in /dev. Now I think it has something to do with gawk, as I think that was one of the packages updated when I emerged world. There is a similar bug (Bugzilla Bug 18127) but there are several important differences, which is why I'm filing another bug (my apologies if these reasons aren't good enough for a new bug report): 1. I am running a stable system (except for Xfree 4.3 and Mozilla 1.3) and haven't installed gawk-3.1.2 ever. 2. My system boots up completely and works fine except for having no entries such as usbmouse in /dev (I don't get any error messages) 3. Reverting to previous versions of gawk does not solve the problem Currently I have the latest stable versions of gawk and baselayout installed, I've tried some of the ideas mentioned in this thread on the Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43578 but have had no luck. This problem is pretty severe as I can't use Xwindows without a mouse, and so Gentoo is pretty unusable at the moment. Thanks and regards, Simon
Man do I feel dumb. Along the way of trying to fix this problem I re-emerged baselayout and by mistake overwrote my modules.autoload file. I re-did the file, but forgot to load mousedev...:( But the initial problem was caused by the update world...all I can say is that the problem must have been fixed by me emerging gawk, baselayout and devfsd again. I'm very sorry about that! Cheers Simon
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18127 ***