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.