Guest greatgatsby Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I recently updated from 10.0 to 10.1 using urpmi. It took about ten minutes to log in everytime i started up. a friend said that they went from devfsd to umount. so i removed devfsd using rpm. Now when i reboot i get this error: { Your system is currently using devfs but devfsd isnt available. you should disable devfs (add 'devfs="nomount"') to the parameters that your bootloader gives to the kernel. Disabling devfs (was mounted on /dev) umount: /dev: device is busy. } Now it only lets me log in with root password as read only. What is going on? I tried booting with my old 10.0 disc to do rescue, and it says fatal: raid_setup: stat ("/dev/hda") Anyone have a clue whats going on? Thanks ~Gats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest greatgatsby Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 i took care of is. used failsafe to wipe out any devfs remaing files and change lilo to devfs=nomount. thanks though. i think its fixed. well at least this will help someone else that might have this problem ~gats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Welcome to the board, and thanks for posting your solution. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 just another place for folks to check should they have a problem with devfsd/udev in 10.1. i recently used the "upgrade" feature to upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1. all went swimmingly well, except i kept getting a message during boot that devfsd was being used instead of udev. i couldn't get udev to start or work, no matter what i tried. i stopped the service from running, uninstalled devfsd, removed all references & configs for it, edited lilo properly, even tried a newer version of udev, to no avail. it turned out that during the upgrade, somehow a hidden file called .devfsd was left/put in the /dev directory. i deleted that hidden file (after doing all of the above), no more errors, udev works fine. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flarkit Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 (edited) Hi If I may ask a slightly off-topic question, please... How long does it take to upgrade 10.0 (I have Official) to 10.1 using urpmi, if I were to use a 56K dialup? Thanks Edited January 1, 2005 by flarkit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 flarkit: that's hard to answer precisely, as it depends what you have installed, but it'd be reasonably close to 'forever'. :) Let's assume you'd need to download 1GB of data, which is a reasonable assumption for a standard Mandrake installation; that'd be, oh, 50 hours or more. Yikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest greatgatsby Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 flarkit: that's hard to answer precisely, as it depends what you have installed, but it'd be reasonably close to 'forever'. :) Let's assume you'd need to download 1GB of data, which is a reasonable assumption for a standard Mandrake installation; that'd be, oh, 50 hours or more. Yikes. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well i was on I2 and was getting 1.9MBps and it took all night. the other thing is sometimes you have to notice its waiting for you to enter a Y/N for a package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 greatgatsby: that's what --auto is for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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