Re: udev warning message on Debian 5.0
On 2009-07-30 12:21 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Kushal Koolwal wrote:
>> Recently I was having some trouble with my udev, so I purged udev, rebooted system and re-install udev again. After that most of the udev startup error went away but now I get the following warning message during system boot:
>>
>> .udev/ already exists on the static /dev!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Please copy me on the reply since I am not on the mailing list.
>>
>>
>
> My suggestion is: Boot with a live cd, mount your root filesystem, and I
> guess you will find stuff in /dev/. Delete everything inside /dev/.
This is somewhat excessive, just deleting /dev/udev.d is sufficient.
> Then reboot normally and my guess is that you will not get this
> warning anymore...
Assuming Kushal uses an initramfs, without it the boot process will
halt rather early if the kernel cannot find /dev/console.
Sven
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