From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Abbott Subject: kernel errors on boot Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:23:30 +0000 Message-ID: <42211302.1090908@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I am getting strange error messages from the kernel as I boot ever since I upgraded from 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 to 2.6.10-gentoo-r6. Here is a sample from my log: Feb 26 15:33:40 [kernel] devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/2 Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcs2"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa2"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [kernel] devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/3 Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcs3"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa3"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [kernel] devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/4 Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcs4"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa4"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [kernel] devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/7 Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcs7"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa7"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [kernel] devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a9 Feb 26 15:33:40 [kernel] devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/10 Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa9"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcs10"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa10"_No such file or directory_ Feb 26 15:33:40 [devfsd] error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL"_ I am running Gentoo, as if that wasn't obvious from my kernel ver. I did recently emerge udev to eventually replace devfs since it is being deprecated, but have not done so yet. Could this be part of the problem? Thanks, Jeremy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs