Probably a given - but udev-030-26 made my system unbootable (detailed)

[David Hollis]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 12:50 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2004, at 04:44, Mark Mielke wrote:
> 
> > The first error was "Warning: unable to find a console" or something 
> > to that
> > effect. The boot process paused. I manually created:
> >
> >     crw-------  1 root root   5,   1 Sep 17 22:18 console
> >
> > Then, it complained about /dev/null not being writable. Sure enough,
> > /dev/null was a regular file with bytes in it. *sigh* Created that as:
> >
> >     crw-rw-rw-  1 root root   1,   3 Feb 23  2004 null
> >
> > No luck. Booting still had major trouble. Finally I gave up:

I actually noticed this after I upgraded my udev.  Fortunately, I didn't
reboot!  I checked out my /dev directory and noticed that null was a
regular file and there wasn't a heckuva lot in there.  I
ran /sbin/udevstart and it recreated everything and life was good.  When
I rebooted later things came up with no problems.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>