130120 victor romanchuk wrote: > On 01/20/2013 12:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be stable. >> There were multiple problems & I'm now back with udev-171 . >> (1) "Setting system clock using HW clock; can't access HW clock". >> (2) "Mounting local filesystems; mount point /dev/shm doesn't exist". >> (3) 'startx' : no mouse or keys. >> (4) 'dhcpcd' hangs. >> I recompiled util-linux mesa xf86-input-evdev xorg-server , >> recompiled the kernel (3.5.3) to enable DEVTMPFS .
The problem was the new USE flag +openrc : I added it to the list in make.conf , remerged -197 , remerged the other 4 pkgs as above & all seems to be well. Thankyou to another responder, who pointed out the new /lib/udev/ : this doesn't affect my system, but it's important to know re it. > The only observation is absence of device file /dev/root > whilst both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts are referring to that device node: > # grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,commit=0 0 0 > /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /proc/mounts:/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 > i'm running 3.6.11-gentoo, proprietary nvidia, sys-fs/mdadm, > sys-fs/lvm2, with no initrd of any flavour; boots using legacy grub; > the root filesystem is on softraid device I have root:508 ~> grep root /etc/mtab /proc/mounts /etc/mtab:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /etc/mtab:/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0 /etc/mtab:cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 /proc/mounts:rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /proc/mounts:/dev/root / reiserfs rw,noatime,notail 0 0 /proc/mounts:cgroup_root /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 I use kernel 3.5.3-gentoo, Nvidia, none of your others ; Lilo ; no raid. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca