Re: 2.6.18-rc7-mm1: no /dev/tty0

["J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@ono.com>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:40:50 -0400, jhf@columbus.rr.com (Joseph Fannin) wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:06:49AM +0200, Laurent Riffard wrote:
> > Le 21.09.2006 23:41, J.A. Magallón a écrit :
> 
>     Trimming CC's is generally frowned upon on LKML.
> 
> > >When booting 2.6.18-rc7-mm1, the initscripts complain about /dev/tty0 not
> > >being present. Then the boot sequence blocks...:
> > >
> > >Sep 21 23:23:57 werewolf init: open(/dev/console): No such file or
> > >directory
> > >Sep 21 23:24:07 werewolf last message repeated 17 times
> > >Sep 21 23:24:12 werewolf init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> > >minutes
> > >
> > >(from syslog)
> > >
> > >The same userspace boots fine with -rc6-mm2.
> > >
> > >Any ideas ?
> >
> > Well, I have similar issues: when booting 2.6.18-rc7-mm1, some /dev
> > files are missing:
> > - /dev/kmem
> > - /dev/kmsg
> > - /dev/mem
> > - /dev/port
> > - /dev/ptmx
> > - /dev/tty
> >
> > Setting CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y didn't help. My .config is attached.
> > ~~
> > laurent
> 
>     There were some problems with older versions of udev not creating
> some device nodes with -mm kernels.  I don't know if this has been
> fixed, or if it's the same as this:
> 
> "- The kernel doesn't work properly on RH FC3 or pretty much anything
>   which uses old udev, due to improvements in the driver tree."
> 
>     I know that, several -mm's back, Ubuntu Dapper's udev 079 didn't
> create /dev/alsa or /dev/psaux.
> 

Not mya case, at least:

werewolf:~> rpm -q udev
udev-098-6mdv2007.0

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