[plug] Debian upgrade udev_0.114-2 -> udev_0.125-5 devfs error

[Paul Dean]

Hi Adam,

What bind you got yourself in....

Hope this is not a production box, running unstable is for cutting edge new hardware testing, but anyways you are running it.

Do you have the box booting into the OS?

If so, try a `apt-get dist-upgrade`, you may find it will sort out the version jump problems.

If that fails, you may need to roll back from the raid to a non-raid boot, remove udev, ie `apt-get purge udev`, then tidy-up the udev left behinds and reinstall udev again, then recreate the software raid.

Very odd thou the fstab is not referencing the UUID of the drives and using /dev instead, as this the standard now set in lenny(testing), soon to be stable(woop woop yeh!).

But be warned, DON'T shutdown/power off/blah the box when you do this cos it won't boot to the drive again, if you do for whatever reason make sure you got the lastest lenny netinst cd, it has a rescue option. 

Hope this points you in the right direction.

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Thanks

Paul.

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:22:33 +0800
Adam Davin <byteme-its at westnet.com.au> wrote:

>Hi all, 
>
>Hoping someone can point me in the right direction with this one.
>
>I am running Debian unstable and have been for several years with out
>too many hitches. Most things I can find my way through but this one
>has me stumped and google doesn't seem to be giving any assistance at
>present. 
>
>Recently I did a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, but the upgrade
>stopped at the udev upgrade with the message below: 
>
>Preparing to replace udev 0.114-2
>(using .../archives/udev_0.125-5_i386.deb) ... Since release 0.124-1
>udev does not support anymore devfs-like names. Please convert to
>standard names before upgrading:
>
>rm
>-f /etc/udev/rules.d/devfs.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/compat-full.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/compat.rules
>ln -s ../udev.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
>
>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.125-5_i386.deb
>(--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit
>status 1
>
>
>My fstab file does not reference any drives by "devfs" style names and
>hasn't for a while. I have recently created a couple of raid partitions
>but checking /proc/mdstat all drives are listed as sd[ab][1..4]
>
>
>owl:/etc# cat fstab
># /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>#
># <file system>	<mount point>	<type>
><options>		<dump>
><pass> /dev/hda3 /	ext3errors=remount-ro	0	1 
>/dev/hda2 swap		swap	sw,pri=1	00 
>/dev/sda3 swap		swap sw,pri=10		00 
>/dev/sdb3 swap		swap	sw,pri=10 0	0
>proc 	/proc		proc defaults00
>/dev/cdrom3	/media/cd autodefaults,ro,user,noauto	00
>/dev/hda5	/usr	ext3 defaults 0 2 
>/dev/hda6	/var ext3	defaults	02 
>/dev/hda7	/home		ext3 defaults 0	2
>...
>
>typing mount however does show that the system is referencing block
>devices using the devfs names. 
>
>Mount shows: 
>owl:/etc# mount
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on / type ext3
>(rw,errors=remount-ro) 
>tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) 
>proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
>udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
>tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
>fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /home type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /mnt/store1 type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /mnt/store2 type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/md/1 on /mnt/newinst type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/md/0 on /mnt/newinst/boot type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/md/3 on /mnt/newinst/home type ext3 (rw)
>/dev/md/4 on /mnt/newinst/mnt/store type ext3 (rw)
>
>I did find a page which mentioned
>deleting /etc/udev/rules.d/compat-full.rules
>and /etc/udev/rules.d/devfs.rules and creating /etc/udev/udev.rules. I
>tried this manually (by renaming them to *.old rather than deleting)
>and on rebooting, the raid partitions failed to be found (invalid 
>superblock) and once the system finished booting, I got a message that
>getty (?) was spawning too fast and would be disabled for 5 mins.
>Leaving the system for 20mins, no login showed. I was also unable to
>C+A+D to reboot (Error no super user logged in). Thankfully the power
>button shut down correctly.
>
>I was able to boot back into single user mode and restore the two files
>I deleted and the system then rebooted fine as before. 
>
>I have also change the /etc/default/devfsd mount devfs on boot option
>to no
>
>Any help to get past this would be greatly appreciated .. 
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>regards, 
>


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Thanks

Paul Dean.

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