On 2009-07-30 12:21 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Kushal Koolwal wrote: >> Recently I was having some trouble with my udev, so I purged udev, rebooted >> system and re-install udev again. After that most of the udev startup error >> went away but now I get the following warning message during system boot: >> >> .udev/ already exists on the static /dev! >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Please copy me on the reply since I am not on the mailing list. >> >> > > My suggestion is: Boot with a live cd, mount your root filesystem, and I > guess you will find stuff in /dev/. Delete everything inside /dev/.
This is somewhat excessive, just deleting /dev/udev.d is sufficient. > Then reboot normally and my guess is that you will not get this > warning anymore... Assuming Kushal uses an initramfs, without it the boot process will halt rather early if the kernel cannot find /dev/console. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org