Re: Devfs strangeness in 2.4.18

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:34:50 -0600


Dag Nygren writes:
> > Also check that you don't have bogus entries in your dev-state
> > area. Mandrake had some configuration problems a few months back.
>
> Yess!!!
> That's what did it, removing the sg? and st? entries from /lib/dev-state
> did the trick. There were some oldies ghosting there. Thanks a lot
> Richard, I didn't even know that there was a dev-state directory to
> look for ;-).

I've added an item to the FAQ about this.

> Is there any comprehensive documentation on devfsd and devfs
> anywhere on the net? Could be good to read a bit more about this.

Have you not looked at the FAQ?

Regards,

Richard....
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