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

Firmicus Firmicus at gmx.net
Thu Oct 8 18:29:42 EDT 2009


Firmicus a écrit :
> Thomas Bächler a écrit :
>   
>> Firmicus schrieb:
>>     
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> F
>>>
>>>       
>> rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules
>>
>>     
> All right. Danke Thomas!
> Rebooting now...
>
> 0 o .
>
>   
... and back! That was it indeed. Ah, well, how long did I live with
that antediluvian udev.rules file? It was dated March 2008 and did not
even belong to the udev package... Wonder what ill it caused otherwise.
Well. Gone now. Thanks again.
F




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