After changing make.profile (from 2007.0 to 2008.0) and system update (emerge -uDN world) system faild to start. In interactive boot menu qestion about starting udev service failed with message " udev uses addon code which is deprecated and may not be available in the future Mounting /dev /lib/rcscript/addons/udev-start.sh: line 26: _start: command not found ERROR: udev failed to start " After that system boots without /dev, and even haven't root fs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.1.6_rc2 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-i686-AMD_K7_processo-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops -fpeel-loops -funswitch-loops -funit-at-a-time" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" 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="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops -fpeel-loops -funswitch-loops -funit-at-a-time" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.bg/ http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://distfiles.gentoo.bg/ http://ftp.gentoo.bg/ http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ ftp://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j1" 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/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac accessibility acl acpi aim alias alisp alsa amarok amr amrnb aotuv aspnet aspnet2 async audit authfile auto-completion automount avahi bash-completion bind-mysql boost bzip2 c++ cairo caps ccache cdaudio cdb cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cdsound cg cgi chroot compress consolekit cpio cracklib crypt cups curl cursors cxx cyrillic dbm dbus demo device-mapper dga dhcp directfb directv divx djvu dmi dnd dvbplayer dvd dvdarchive dvdchapjump dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode esd exif fame fastbuild fbdev ffmpeg filter flac floppy ftp gdb gdbm gif gimp glut gmp gpm gstreamer hal hash http icons iconv icq ieee1394 ivtv java java-external java-internal javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdm kdrive kerberos lame libnotify lirc logitech-mouse mad maps midi mikmod mime mmx mono moonlight mouse mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mpu401 mtp mudflap music mysql nano-syntax nanoemacs ncurses nforce2 nls nocd nptl nvidia nvram odk ogg opengl openmp openssl opensslcrypt opera oscar oss pam pcre pdf perl php player png posix python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio rar rdesktop readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs resolver rsync ruby samba scanner sdl search server session slang sms sound soundex sounds spell spl srt sse ssl suexec svg svga tcpd tga themes threads tiff tivo toolbar tools translator truetype tv unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vga videos vim-syntax vmware vorbis wav web win32codecs winbind winpopup wma wmf wmp x264 x86 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xmlwriter xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zip zlib zoran" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" 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="ru en" LIRC_DEVICES="avermedia avermedia98 pctv pixelview_bt878 avermedia_vdomate" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
What were the udev/openrc/sysvinit versions when booting failed ? Did you run etc-update after emerging ?
*** Bug 252305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > What were the udev/openrc/sysvinit versions when booting failed ? > > Did you run etc-update after emerging ? > Please verify if you have run etc-update or not.
Any progress here?
(In reply to comment #4) > Any progress here? > I'm not the OP but I can verify that I have updated incoming config files as asked in previous post. In my case I used cfg-update but still there are no more files to update and on restart udev still fails to start. should there be something uncommented in /etc/conf.d/udev? In my case its only comments. After bootup, with udev having failed to start... no cmdline tools are found, no PATHS are set etc so nothing can really be done short of booting off an install img or livecd and chrooting. But what to do? Attempting to start udev manually raises the original error reported by OP.
Which udev version do you use? udev-135-r2 does not use addon code. So either you have an older version or did not update the cponfig-files/init-scripts properly.
After emerge udev run etc-update and update your config files in /etc/init.d/
We cannot do anything here without further information.
Just came across this same issue, same error and symptoms. Running etc-update and updating all the files related to udev fixed the problem.
