From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.0.4-2 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The script generated by mkinitrd, when booted up, will randomly print up to 3 messages like the one in the summary. Besides /dev/console, it can be /dev/zero and /dev/null as well. The messages are always in the order they appear in the script. There's some additional analysis of the problem starting at comment 18 of bug 155521. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-4.2.15-1 kernel-2.6.11-1.1323_FC4 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up a rawhide-tracking box Actual Results: audit (...): initialized Red Hat nash v. ... starting mknod: ... /dev/zero: 17 [messages about sda and sdb that I get when sbp2 and usb-storage are loaded] Reading all physical volumes... Expected Results: No such mknod messages Additional info:
This appears to dupe 157129.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157129 ***