[arch-general] /dev/tty* borked ...

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Firmicus <Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> My system is uptodate with the current testing repo. During bootup today
> I noticed the error message:
>    /etc/rc.sysinit: line 364: /dev/tty[0-9]*: no such file or directory
> To my surprise, only /dev/tty was present, but none of tty0..9. Instead
> there was a device literally named '/dev/tty[0-9]*' !! I deleted the
> latter, and attempted to create the missing ones with mknod. But I think
> I took the wrong major number, and now my system has started to behave a
> bit crazy... Any idea what I should do to restore it to sanity?

Hmmm, bad udev rule? Udev should be creating these devices. More to
the point, though, your inittab should be using those devices, so if
they don't exist, it should never get to rc.sysinit.

Was there a udev update recently?