From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim McCloskey Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:39:33 +0000 Subject: Re: FATAL error message Message-Id: <20041016133933.GA14253@lapdog> List-Id: References: <20041010154846.GA19676@ohlone> In-Reply-To: <20041010154846.GA19676@ohlone> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I wrote: |> All was working very well for me. Then I had two hard shutdowns in a |> row caused by power-failures. On the second re-boot, I got this |> message: |> |> FATAL: udev still active on /dev/ |> |> And it won't go away after several cycles of clean shutdown followed |> by reboot. .... |> My suspicion is that there is some temporary file that should have |> been deleted in the course of a clean shutdown which has not been, but |> I would really appreciate any advice that might be available here. I was able to solve this problem (on the basis of some advice on the Debian-user mailing list) by deleting .udev.tdb in /dev. I had tried deleting the file previously, but I suspect that what I was deleting was a copy in tmpfs. To really delete the file on the disk, I had to boot with init=/bin/sh, mount / by hand and then rm /dev/.udev.tdb. There's a lot I don't understand about what happened here, but the immediate problem at least seems to have been resolved, Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel