Error during boot [solved]

[isadora]

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

[Guest anon]

Hmmm......What does your /etc/fstab read?

[isadora]

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

[Guest anon]

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.

[isadora]

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

[Guest anon]

........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

[isadora]

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

[Guest anon]

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.

[isadora]

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

[Guest anon]

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

[bvc]

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

[Guest anon]

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 stop

then 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.

[isadora]

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

[isadora]

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!!!

[bvc]

reboot