On Friday 29 July 2005 07:28, Richard Fish wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> uname -a > >> Linux energy 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #2 Thu Jul 14 07:37:15 CEST 2005 i686 > >> AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > >> > >> it bootet fine with devfs, oh, and the config is the same since ages, > >> three days later, I switched to udev. > >> > >> Btw, I greped the config for random/urandom, there was nothing found. > >> Hm, where should I look? > > > > There's no Kconfig option because the random number generator is a > > required feature. I don't see how it could be a udev issue because > > the /dev/urandom device file is either there or not and after that > > it's the kernel's responsibility. I would build a new kernel. > > > > Zac > > You can pretty quickly determine if it is a kernel problem or a udev > problem by adding a > 'ls -l /dev/urandom' to /etc/init.d/urandom: > > start() { > [...] > ls -l /dev/urandom # debug strangeness > ebegin "Initializing random number generator" > umask 077 > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/run/random-seed count=1 &> /dev/null > > Also, only the display options for devfs were removed from 2.6.12, the > code and config option in .config are still there. Can you double check > your kernel config, and make sure that "# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set". > I think if you copied an old kernel config, you could have devfs support > still in your kernel, which might cause some strange behavior. I'm not > sure. > > -Richard
I had devfs still in kernel, but no automount and gentoo=nodevfs in grub.conf. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list