Description of problem: With tmpfs mounted on /dev an attempt to reinstall 'dev' package produces: Cannot install the dev package: mounted devfs detected. error: %pre(dev-3.8.3-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 If there was no devfs ever on a machine this leaves a victim with a head scratcher as obvioulsy there is no devfs in sight anywhere (it turns out that this an unexpected and incomplete udev courtesy of a messed up mkinitrd). It would be good to mention some other possibilieties in that message.
Me too... latest rawhide killed abaility tolog into X as anyone but root. Saw dev package failed to update with this error. Booted with init=bash to solve mount problem but even without it mounted still get error..... Arggghh!!!
Try updating udev and initscripts to solve the X problem.
As of MAKEDEV 3.12.1, the dev package is no more, so I guess the question of how to phrase the error message becomes moot.