/dev directory is almost empty after upgrade from sys-fs/udev-171-r9 sys-apps/openrc-0.9.8.4 to sys-fs/udev-197-r3 sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8 downgrade fixed it Portage 2.1.11.45 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.3-1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.3-1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_CPU_G860_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8079528 total, 2820980 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p42 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23, 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.7, 4.6.4-r121109::x-portage, 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Any warnings in build log ? Did you run etc-update after emerge ? ... What you've posted isn't a bug report. It's at best a forum question - one lacking much info.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453074 ***
it was caused by following line in /etc/fstab udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755 0 2
ebuild should probably warn users to remove udev from /etc/fstab
Let's fixup that summary...
This is now fixed in -r3, -r4 and 9999 in a way it prints a warning if it sees a line in /etc/fstab starting with udev