On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:57:59 +0000
Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 20 January 2013 08:51:43 Philip Webb wrote:
> > I just tried upgrading to  udev-197 , which is supposed to be
> > stable. There were multiple problems & I'm now back with  udev-171 .
> 
> My daily update pulled in udev-197-r3. The installation went smoothly
> but I decided I ought to reboot to check that I could. I couldn't.
> Udev couldn't start because my kernel config didn't have
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. So I booted my rescue system on the same disk,
> chrooted in and built a new kernel with that option. On rebooting
> everything was fine.
> 
> Just a note for anyone else who may not have that kernel option.

This got me too.  Now there's a discussion in -dev about making config
warnings fatal.



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