Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?
Christian Leimer wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I today moved a /dev folder from an other clean sarge disk and this fixed
it. However! I now have a /dev which seems to be created by udev and I have
an .dev where all the old stuff is. Is this the debian way?
Bye Chris.
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