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

[Damjan Georgievski]

>>>> 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?

>>> rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules

> ... 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.

That file is a real mistery, I didn't have it (I have probably removed
it long time ago) but a friend had it timestamped at 2007


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damjan