recent emerge update, then rebooted main ALT-F1 window flags that /dev/ is broken and to follow these blat-blat-blat steps to fix. I followed those steps, twice, rebooting between sequences, to no avail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.reboot 2.see error message re broken /dev 3.follow instructions and reboot but still get broken /dev message Actual Results: on boot see broken /dev message on console Expected Results: either /dev not broken on the message re how to fix should work Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ dev-lang/python: 2.1.3-r1, 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr clamav crypt ctype cups curl dba dbm dga directfb divx4linux doc dv dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fame flac foomaticdb fortran freetds gb gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gnomedb gnuplot gnustep gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jikes jpeg junit libg++ libwww lzo mad maildir matrox mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3 mp4live mpeg mysql ncurses nentwork nls odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session slang soap speex spell sqlite sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l videos vorbis wavelan wxwindows xanim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
If it is really broken, then mkdir /mnt/fixit mount --bind / /mnt/fixit mknod /mnt/fixit/dev/console c 5 1 mknod /mnt/fixit/dev/null c 1 3 umount /mnt/fixit rmdir /mnt/fixit does fix it. More likely, you just forgot to cp /etc/issue.devfix /etc/issue after. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40987 ***