Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade
Matt Price wrote:
>cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a
>ppc-specific problem
>
>On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Matt Price wrote:
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>>>So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or
>>>temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the
>>>/dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't
>>>know how to do that.
>>>
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>>Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old
>>fashioned way. If that does not work, "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0".
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>tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 still doesn't get recreated.
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>Let me reiterate the main problem -- I tried to dist-upgrade my system
>(debian sid, about 6 months outdated, running on a blue & white Mac
>g3), and when udev wouldn't install, I apt-getted a newer kernel to
>try again; rebooted, & now my system doesn't find /dev/hda -- which is
>where my /var is located, which means apt-get doesn't work at all, so
>udev can't be installed...
>
>just tried creating the devices manually as per Linas's suggestion but
>no go. took a peek in syslog and it seems the cdrom drive is being
>identified as /dev/hda; the native pci bus is invisible. tried
>modprobing the generic ide driver but, while that succeeded, no
>/dev/hd devices were created. So it appears to me that my ide bus is
>now invisible somehow.
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>tried lspci and it seems some things are missing -- e.g. no ethernet
>device is showing (and in fact ifup eth0 gives a "no such device"
>error); but there is a listing for
>Silicon Image, Inc.. PCI 0646 (rev 5)
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>Not sure if that is my ide controller or not.
>
>Anyway, so something fundamental appears to be screwed up, and I"m not
>sure how to proceed next. I of course appreciate any and all advice
>on how to proceed. thanks!
>
>Matt
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I cannot tell you how to fix it. I CAN tell you how to avoid it in the
future.
apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 will always get you the latest
kernal when you upgrade. In other words, make sure to upgrade your
kernel first.
Why this bug that installs udev which requires a higher kernel continues
to exist is beyond me. You get caught in a loop. Cause's much grief from
those upgrading..
--
Highest Regards,
Rodney Richison
RCR Computing
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