devfsd failing to start.

Fluid_Donkey · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 31

I know devfs is deprecated and we are supposed to use udev but that isn't an option for certain reasons.

I am having trouble getting the machine to start with devfs enabled on a stock 2.4.30 kernel. During boot I get the following:

starting devfsd
Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev
bad config line: "ELF"
exiting
Could not start /sbin/devfsd

I can't find reference to this error any where. I unmerged udev and emerged devfs during the installation process as instructed. I also tried to emerge --oneshot devfsd but to no avail.

The kernel is configured to automount the /dev filesystem at boot.

Any help would be most appreciated.

widan · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:45 am Post subject: Re: devfsd failing to start.

Fluid_Donkey · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 31

Thanks I'll give it a try tomorrow.

The "ELF" bit was really confusing me. As I figured it was something about the ELF binary type but it was in reference to the config file which is just plain text and the string doesn't actually appear in the config (obviously but I checked any way).

Fluid_Donkey · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 31

Thanks that did the trick.

I unmerged devfsd for good measure, physically removed any potentially offending files left in /etc, and re-emerged it. Boots and I am happier for it. Plus the Sangoma card is now showing up.

Thanks again.