Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

[Christian Leimer <christian_leimer@web.de>]

Sebastiaan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Christian Leimer wrote:
> 
>> Hello World!
>>
>> I have done something with MAKEDEV maybe this was not good at all.
>> But how can i undo that udev works and the error is gone. My system still
>> works. But what means this saying that udev is already active? Is there a
>> way to reinstall /dev the debian way, how should it look like? Any docs?
>> I use sarge and my own 2.6 kernel with hotplug and sysfs and procfs and
>> all the needed stuff.
>>
> In which stage do you get the fatal message? And how fatal is it? System
> hang, or just no udev?

Direct after INIT 2.86 starts.

> 
> As far as I know, MAKEDEV just makes old device nodes (mknod-like). When
> udev gets initialized, it 'overwrites' /dev completely. Are you sure it
> was MAKEDEV? And can you remember something about what you did?
> 

I did a ./MAKEDEV generic . The system works also if I deinstall udev. I
thought it is needed for hotplug but seems not to be needed.

Thanks Chris.