The MAKEDEV problem eems to be fixed - I think I saw a successful update.
However, ifup still needs to be run after boot
[root@hoho2 user1]# date
Sat Aug 28 10:40:45 CDT 2004
[root@hoho2 user1]# yum update MAKEDEV
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
No Packages Available for Update
No actions to take
[root@hoho2 user1]#
BobG
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:38:58 -0400 David T Hollis wrote
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On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:58 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties
>
> [root@hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386]
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages
> Running test transaction:
> Test transaction complete, Success!
> Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected.
> error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1
> Updated: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386
> Transaction(s) Complete
> [root@hoho2 ~]#
>
Updating dev also produces this. The problem is that the the preinstall
script is checking for anything mounted on /dev (thinking that would be
devfs). Recently (not sure when exactly), /dev is now mounted as ramfs
so the install/upgrade of dev fails.
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