bash: line 1: /dev/null: no such file or directory

hondaman · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 19

This is the third time in three installs this has happened, and I dont know whats causing it. This error is happening when I try and do emerge-webrsync. I cant type "mount" in this console, I have to switch to a different console. So, in alt-f2, i do mount, and this is what it says:

tempfs on / type tempfs (rw)
tempfs on / type tempfs (rw)
devfs on /dev type devfs (rw)
/newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/gentoo type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo/home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/gentoo/var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /mnt/gentoo/gaming type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/gentoo/proc type proc (rw)

This is a dual opteron using the 2004.1 (? latest version) x86-64 live CD.

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

Have you tried manually creating the device node ?

hondaman · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 19

Ok, i just rebooted, and before mounting anything I tried your command.

mknod: '/mnt/gentoo/dev/null': no such file or directory

I tried

mknod /dev/null v 1 3 and the file exists.

I then mounted everything, chrootd and did your same command, and it said no such file or directory again.

I then did ls, and there is no /dev whatsoever!
What makes this directory? I must have missed a step again somewhere somehow.

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:04 am Post subject:

/dev should be included in the stage tarball, but I have not checked the AMD64 ones because I only have AMD32 hardware at the moment.

hondaman · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 19

I actually just verified that. I extracted it with |grep -i dev and there is nothing extracting to /dev

RG10 · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 2

I had this same issue, after searching further I found this solution from one of the Gentoo AMD developers.

Quote:
"Something that hasn't hit the tech notes yet.
For those starting with a stage1, when you enter your
chroot, use these commands:

mkdir -p /dev
cd /dev
MAKEDEV generic-i386

The official stage1 is missing /dev."

Hope this helps anyone who has the same issue.

stahlsau · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject:

yes, did it too with the