isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 During boot i see this message coming by; devfsd used instead of udev!!! Yesterday i upgraded my MDK10OE to 10.1OE. What is going wrong? Somewhere i read to remove a hidden file /etc/.devfsd, but this is not possible. I killed one time the process devfsd, but could not find anything going different on the system, though this only could be done with root. In /etc/mtab i find one line including: none /dev devfs rw 0 0 Can anyone please give me some idea of what to do, or just not. Many thanks in advance. isadora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Hmmm......What does your /etc/fstab read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 This is what my /etc/fstab shows; /dev/hde7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 10.0.0.153:/ /mnt/mdk90 nfs user,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft 0 0 # 10.0.0.153:/ /mnt/linuxweb nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,noauto,soft 0 0 # 10.0.0.153:/home /mnt/linuxweb/home nfs soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nosuid 0 0 # //w98/C /mnt/w98C smbfs username=% 0 0 # //w98/D /mnt/w98D smbfs username=% 0 0 # //w98/E /mnt/w98E smbfs username=% 0 0 # //w98/F /mnt/w98F smbfs username=% 0 0 # //w98/G /mnt/w98G smbfs username=% 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c ntfs suid,dev,ro,umask=0,exec,nls=iso8859-1,noauto 0 0 /dev/hde5 /mnt/win_d ntfs suid,dev,ro,umask=0,exec,nls=iso8859-1,noauto 0 0 /dev/hde6 /mnt/win_e ntfs suid,dev,ro,umask=0,exec,nls=iso8859-1,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde8 swap swap defaults 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Looks like its not using udev because of that .devfsd file. That "hidden file" won't be in /etc/.devfsd (???) it should be in /dev.devfsd If its there then delete it. You will then have to reboot, or try going into MCC >>system>>>services and restart the udev service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 You are right Sunbeam Tiger, it wasn't in /etc but in /dev Nevertheless it won't allow me to delete it under root, access denied. Beside that, i did the top-command and don't see devfsd anymore appearing, instead i now see udevd. Through services in MCC i stopped devfsd, and started udev on boot. However during boot the message stiil appears, you are using devfsd instead of udev. I also changed /etc/lilo.conf as far as it had to do with this issue; i put a # before the line: append="devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde8 splash=silent" and made a new entry: append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde8 splash=silent" It's not i'm experiencing any problems whatsoever, but you know it's something annoying. If you have any other suggestions, i would be grateful. isadora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 ........it won't allow me to delete it under root, access denied. I don't understand that. :o OK, try this, ( excuse me if i state what you may already know ) Open a consol and type su enter root password. Then : cd /dev Then : rm .devfsd It should ask for confirmation, type y and enter. That should do it. If not, then try: rm --force .devfsd That should get rid of the pesky file for you. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Yo Tigro, i try and try, but nothing happens, besides a message; [root@isadora dev]# rm --force .devfsd rm: cannot remove `.devfsd': Operation not permitted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Weird. devfsd shouldn't be listed in MCC now that udev is installed. It must be that its in use so its stopping you from deleting the file. Try going into MCC again and shut it down, then try and delete the file. Or uncheck it to stop it loading at boot, reboot and then delete the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Already went through that, but didn't bring me any closer. Now devfsd is unchecked in MCC, and in status stoppped (even after reboot), but it won.t let me remove it, neither forced, and logged in as root. When i bring up the TOP-command devfsd doesn't show up, udevd does. (?!?!?!?!?) isadora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 In your /etc/lilo.conf file, does your "append" line say : "devfs=mount" ?? If it does, delete it or make it read "devfs=nomount" Also, run this in a consol; chkconfig --list udev It should read this: udev 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off EDIT After editing lilo.conf run lilo -v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 (edited) service devfsd stop then delete the file which is a strange fix IMO....why not remove the rpm pkg that'll never be used (Once you've verified that everything works with udev) should have to do anything but devfs=umount in the booloader and chkconfig devfsd off from the commandline though Edited December 9, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 bvc This was a common problem for some, when people up-graded 10-1 beta to beta whatever. The system would try to load both dev and udev. service devfsd stopthen delete the file He tried that, but becuse the system was using it, it can't be deleted. Same would apply to the package i guess. However, "devfs=nomount" or remove the devfs line completely, should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 (edited) On chkconfig --list udev followed: [root@isadora karel]# chkconfig --list udev udev 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off In the lilo.conf stands: append ="devfs=nomount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hde8 splash=silent" On service devfsd stop: [root@isadora karel]# service devfsd stop Stopping devfsd daemon: [ OK ] On removing dev.devfsd followed: [root@isadora dev]# rm --force .devfsd rm: cannot remove `.devfsd': Operation not permitted And concluding: [root@isadora dev]# chkconfig devfsd off [root@isadora dev]# It's some operation..... I could try removing the package of devfsd, but i'm not sure whether to return in good shape with udev after a reboot....... isadora Edited December 9, 2004 by isadora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadora Posted December 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Shortly; this is the problem yet [root@isadora dev]# service devfsd stop Stopping devfsd daemon: [ OK ] [root@isadora dev]# service udev start devfsd used instead of udev!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 reboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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