Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-31 Thread Rodney Richison
Matt Price wrote: >cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a >ppc-specific problem > >On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Matt Price wrote: >> >> >> >>>So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or >>>temporarily disable udev, or so

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (23/01/06 07:34), Matt Price wrote: > > To: debian users , > > debian users > > From: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by >

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread John
On (23/01/06 07:34), Matt Price wrote: > To: debian users , > debian users > From: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev > in > dist-upgrade] > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:34:40 -0500

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but > > udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 > > kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up > >

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > > I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but > > udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 > > kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up > >

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Wackojacko
Matt Price wrote: On 1/22/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old fashioned way. If that does not work, "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0". tried this with no success -- /dev/

2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/22/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old > > fashioned way. If that does not work, "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0". > > > > > > tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 s

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or > > temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the > > /d

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Wackojacko
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certai

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devi

system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certain amount of effort,