From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 5 19:33: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C9A14E1E; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA15957; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 22:33:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199912060333.WAA15957@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: David Malone , Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Should UPDATING tell you to rerun MAKEDEV now? References: <199912051813.aa78561@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <199912052118.OAA29838@harmony.village.org> <19991205221941.A27611@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <384B19D9.E77F7E21@vangelderen.org> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:05:13 -0400." <384B19D9.E77F7E21@vangelderen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:33:19 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > David Malone wrote: > > I just had the same problem as someone else on the list where I > > booted after a make world and new kernel, and then fsck reported > > the filesystems clean but mount said they were dirty. I booted > > from the old kernel, installed and ran the new MAKEDEV and the > > new kernel ran fine. This is on a 386. > > Being the other person, I basically had the same problem. I had run > MAKEDEV but an IDE disk did go bad which caused a crash which caused > /dev corruption which caused the problem I posted... > > > Phk just recommended running MAKEDEV to the othe person with this > > problem. > > I had to boot a kernel and /dev off a floppy to fix the /dev. > I've been in a similar situation, even when not in "crisis" mode, but just when installing new disk drives or moving stuff around. It's sort of annoying that you can't run MAKEDEV with just a root file system mounted. It wants to chown(8) the device nodes as they're created, but it fails since chown is in /usr/sbin, which isn't mounted. If we've got chio(1) in the root file system, couldn't we have chown there too? louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message