Hi again, * hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au> [030829 14:36]: > Hi all, > > firstly please excuse possible line wrap problems and lack of my usual gpg > signature. I'm sending this via squirrel mail for reasons described below. Yay, no more web mail. > I'm running sid with a 2.6.0-test2 kernel with devfs. Yesterday I did a > dist-upgrade and then shut down. The devfsd package was _not_ upgraded. > I'm not sure if it is relevant but initrd-tools was upgraded. > > I rebooted today to find that none of the old style device nodes are being > created in /dev. For example my root partition /dev/hda4 is not there. As > you can guess this causes no end of problems. <snip> I read the boot messages more carefully (gotta love Shift-PgUp), and saw that devfsd was failing to start. It was bailing out try to process /etc/devfsd/conf.d/alsa (alsa-base 0.9.6-1). The last line of this file must be malformed. I simply commented it out. hastings@twofish ~ 17% cat /etc/devfs/conf.d/alsa # device permissions for ALSA sound devices. REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660 #REGSITER ^snd/controlC0 CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink /proc/asound/oss/sndstat /dev/sndstat Any devfs experts know how to fix this line properly? Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test3-looxt93c2 i686 GNU/Linux
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