udev. /sys problems..

miqorz · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:49 am Post subject: udev. /sys problems..

Allright.. I've been having problems getting 2.6.7 and udev to play nice..

I had some troubles with /dev/pts but a post here helped me fix it..

But here's two issues that are seriously buggering me..

I have no /sys! and I get a LONG error about user font cannot be set ..

I can only fix it by disabling that on boot but I'd like to be able to fix it..

And yes I've tried adding /sys to fstab.. /sys just plain ole doesn't exist on my system ..

bennettp · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:27 am Post subject:

You need a 2.6 kernel to use sysfs. As far as I can tell, there's no option to enable or disable it, it's there whether you like it or not. What's the output when you try to "mount -t sysfs none /sys"?

Also, I think the phrase you want is "bugging you", not "buggering you"

miqorz · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

I'll boot over to Gentoo in a sec.. and Yes a friend of mine from Australia warned me about saying "buggering" ..

I just happen to like the sound of it versus bugging..

miqorz · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

Hah! All I had to do was mkdir /sys

Boots fine now! .. time to figure out why my sound "works" but I get boot errors because of it..

And when i reboot it cant shut down sysklog because "process doesn't exist"..

miqorz · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

Eh, One more question..

I used udev per the default in Slackware..

And it gave me a SMALL /dev filled with just the stuff on my system and a nice /dev/cdrom ..

But here on Gentoo I have a massive /dev filled with stuff I've never heard of before and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ..

Any ideas?

affinity · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 66

miqorz · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:17 am Post subject:

I hate to seem ungrateful in any way but -neither- of those solutions worked..

1) RC_DEVICE_TARBALL wasn't IN the file.. I added it. and nothing..

Also..

2) /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules didn't exist. but 50-local.rules DID..

I edited it and added
BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdX", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom"

at the bottom and the system link did not show up..

Hmm. I've never set up udev before and Slackware was my only experience with it period..

affinity · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 66

1) If you're using baselayout <1.8.6.13-r1 you'll have to update or edit /etc/init.d/halt.sh and /sbin/rc.

2) You did replace the hdX with the correct value (ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0)?

miqorz · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:53 am Post subject:

Allright!

Okay - With baselayout updated /dev is slim! but..

for some reason after boot .. /boot is NOT mounted o_O

and the cdrom syslink still isn't showing .

miqorz · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:22 am Post subject:

Also worth noting is when I su - password - it says Permission Denied!

And yes I -am- in the wheel!

affinity · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 66

Why would you want /boot to be mounted after boot?
If you really have a reason for that make sure that there's no noauto in the fstab entry.

Also the cdrom syslink should work fine (WFM) as long as udev reads it before this rule:

miqorz · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject:

im going to mess with this udev stuff a little more later..

And yeah my system is OLD..

I installed it on my slave drive a long time ago and never used it and just now getting around to it..