As I can see you did not read whole message :) So the problem is :
When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" there is no lp0 and sometimes hdc, it doesn't depend on cd/dvd disc inside my dvd, or on if my printer is set to "on"/"off" When RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" lp0, hdc1..20 are in /dev but hdc is only on first reboot after recreating it by hand (mknod) or with MAKEDEV. I made my own devices.tar.bz2 but there was same result. I noticed it yesterday when I wanted to watch film on dvd one more time. Today my brother wanted to print something but cups showed that printer is not connected so I checked why - there was no lp0 in /dev. I haven't ever touched any udev rules and my system (gentoo) worked for more than year (till about two days ago). It is not new or exotic hardware, and I think this is not fault of hardware at all. So AFAIK the "error" does not depend on RC_DEVICE_TARBALL, hardware, kernel (gentoo-sources, vanilla-sources)... 2005/9/17, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > capsel wrote: > > 2005/9/17, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>>So for example lp* stays (it's another one that disappears), all hdc? > >>>stays, but hdc still is not there. File devices.tar.bz2 is updated by > >>>system and it has not hdc. > >>>What else can I do? > >> > >>Not use the tarball option? > >> > >>I mean, seriously, are you really seeing it's saving you anything at boot? > >>I couldn't tell any noticeable difference, so I've been running w/o tarball > >>for months... > >> > >>-- > >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > > > > > > With RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" lp* and all hdc? except hdc stays, and I > > can see "saving device nodes" not at boot but when shutting > > down/reboot. > > With RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" hdc is created, and lp*, hdc? does not exist. > > > > I'll try to emerge sync now... > > It is really strange. I haven't ever had such symptoms, even when I > > switched from 2.4/devfsd to 2.6/udev. > > > Hi, > i put RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"(permanently) a long time ago, had no problems. > Now checked and currently it's set to "yes" but this is due to the fact > i had do a complete reinstall a week ago (dying hard on it's way). > IIRC when it is set to "no" udev creates all necessary nodes, you only > have to put your own rules to support new/exotic hardware. > Now will cp the tarball somewhere for backup and change to 'no'. > HTH. Rumen > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
