Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:35:59 +0200, Christian Leimer
<christian_leimer@web.de> wrote:
> If I boot from another system the .dev is gone.
> But booting back in the troble maker shows the .dev and with the contents of
> an old /dev only null and console and I can not delete this it says it is
> in use. If I delete the content of .dev the system does not boot.
>
> Very curios what happens here.
> Also an other disk at sdb is not recognized.
If you installed udev, it will manage the creation of devices in your
/dev (which is mounted over a tmpfs). the .udev directory would
contain the real /dev devices while the udev daemon is still running.
Now, since the real /dev is just moved to .dev, deleting the .dev
directory would make your machine unbootable prior to the point that
the udev daemon gets started. At any rate, you can regenerate the
contents of .dev by using the MAKEDEV utility.
--
Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com
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