On Monday 05 Sep 2005 15:31, Robert Crawford wrote: > I just had a similar problem after I updated udev (I think). I run ~x86 > systems, always kept current, so I expect a few minor hiccups, even though > I'm extremely careful with etc-update. There seems to be some weird stuff > going on with udev, at least on my system, but after a lot of reading on > the formum, and trying many things, I tried changing my fstab line > > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,rw,user > 0 0 > > to this. > > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,rw,user 0 0 > > I think some rule in the new udev changed, and it wasn't creating cdroms > and cdrom0 anymore- only /dev/hdc. > > I looked in /dev, and sure enough, the cdrom and cdrw links point to the > hdc block device. > > Anyway, whatever it was, changing the fstab line now lets me mount cdroms > normally, as before. > > Robert Crawford
I assume that as you are running ~x86 you have upgraded to gentoo-sources version 2.6.13. In that version devfs has been removed (well the config option has gone, the code is still there). The /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 style of device file name is a part of devfs, so if with earlier kernels you still had devfs enabled in the kernel, despite running udev, then you would have gotten the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 link. I am running x86 and running with udev but with devfs still in the kernel. Yesterday I disabled devfs on one of the machines so that I could see what would break in preparation for 2.6.13 moving to x86. I experienced exactly your problem of /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 disappearing. Fortunately the solution is simple, as you describe above. Steve -- ____________________________________________________________________ Steve Evans E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.gorbag.com Registered Linux user #217906: http://counter.li.org Public Encryption Key: http://www.gorbag.com/public-key.html ____________________________________________________________________ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
