udev

[Fryderyk Dziarmagowski]

--- "Elan Ruusamäe" <glen at delfi.ee> wrote:

> > > > > but today this trick didn't work because i couldn't send any input to
> > > > > started shell!!!, i guess this is because my /dev is empty and no
> > > > > udev started.
> > > >
> > > > Your dev should not be empty (there are at least static /dev/null and
> > > > /dev/console from the udev rpm package)
> > >
> > > it's empty because /sbin/start_udev just created tmpfs on /dev. and it's
> > > hunging in udevstart process.
> >
> > Maybe just add mknod stuff in start_udev to always have null and console
> > entries there?
> seems like great idea.

No, it doesn't. that's a udev job to create /dev/{console,null} after
tmpfs is mounted.
 
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Could you remove:
[ -x /sbin/start_udev ] && run_cmd "Starting udev" /sbin/start_udev
from rc.sysinit and replace it with plain:
/sbin/start_udev
and test it again without creating of any new nodes manually?

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski
"Please, just tell people to use KDE." - Linus @ GNOME Usability ml