Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142705
/dev/null is read only - no permissions
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Description of problem: Creates a bizzare /dev file system where there are no access permissions on /dev/null and the /dev/cpu directory is missing. I was running Fedora Core 2 and upgraded to Core 3 using YUM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): udev-039-10.FC3.5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgread from Core 2 to Core 3 using Yum 2. 3. Additional info:
please read: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/ The steps to upgrade without Anaconda or a rescue CD are (NOT recommended): * start from a kernel-2.6 * Make sure /sys/ is mounted * Install the latest initscripts package * Install the latest udev package * Execute /sbin/start_udev * Install the latest mkinitrd package * Install the latest kernel package * Or execute mkinitrd for your existing kernel(s)
I had the same problem, upgrading via apt-get dist-upgrade from RedHat9 to FC3. It seems to me that this bug should be marked a duplicate of the actual bug, which is that the upgrade process doesn't work. I was able to fix my system by doing mkdir /sys mount none /sys -t sysfs /sbin/udevstart and then hopefully fixing it for later boots by adding none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 to my /etc/fstab. (Haven't tried rebooting yet). Seems like the udev rpm could have done that. On the other hand, the automated upgrade broke quite a few other things as well (it even mangled the partition table on a secondary drive!), so it's probably a "don't do that". But the bug should be logged anyway.
well, "don't do that" is correct ... sorry guys