I'm sorry if this is a somewhat inappropriate place to post this, but I didn't get any usable help in the user list and I'm approaching a state of despair ._.
I'll give a sequence of events (debian unstable on a Thinkpad T20): I recently did an aptitude upgrade, which upgraded udev to version 0.100-1. After the next reboot many modules were not loaded and X would not start because my mouse device was missing. I guess there were probably more devices missing as well. I then decided to try to downgrade udev to the previous version, so I did: dpkg -P --force-depends udev dpkg -i udev_0.098-2_i386.deb ...which failed like so: Setting up udev (0.098-2) ... Populating the new /dev/filesystem temporarily mounted on /tmp/udev.g0Q1Bs/ ... ln: creating symbolic link '/tmp/udev.g0Q1Bs/.static/dev/initctl' to '/dev/.static/dev/.static/dev/initctl': No such file or directory mount: special device /dev/pts does not exist dpkg: error processing udev (--install) subprocess post-installation script returned exit status 32 Errors were encountered while processing: udev Trying to reinstall udev 0.100-1 resulted in the same failure. Now, two or three reboots later (the only thing I did with any possible significance was: update-initramfs -u (dumb?)), I can't boot at all anymore because it times out at: "waiting for root filesystem... ..." I tried booting single user also, but that made no difference. If someone please help me out here, I'd be verrrry grateful (before, at the end of this week, I lose my internet connection for a few months). I have a knoppix CD through which I can access all the files on the hard drive. All this might have something to do with the update-rc.d bug (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386500), but it seems too complex for me to know what's applicable to my situation. Ruben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
