[Mageia-dev] New errors during boot (since latest Cauldron updates)

Tue Dec 6 11:12:23 CET 2011

On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:04 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 06/12/11 09:18 did gyre and gimble:
+> > The first error has been around for some time udevd (directory not
+> > writable) - but the OSINFO errors are new:
+> > 
+> > Starting udev:  udevd[133]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not
+> > writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
+> > ^[[85G[^[[1;32m  OK  ^[[0;39m]
+> > udevd[134]: unknown key 'OSINFO_BOOTABLE'
+> > in /lib/udev/rules.d/95-osinfo.rules:30
+> > 
+> > udevd[134]: unknown key 'OSINFO_INSTALLER'
+> > in /lib/udev/rules.d/95-osinfo.rules:30
+> > 
+> > udevd[134]: unknown key 'OSINFO_BOOTABLE'
+> > in /lib/udev/rules.d/95-osinfo.rules:36
+> > 
+> > udevd[134]: unknown key 'OSINFO_INSTALLER'
+> > in /lib/udev/rules.d/95-osinfo.rules:36
+> > 
+> > Systems seems to work fine so far.
+> 
+> Can you state which init system you are using, sysvinit or udev. And
+> also can you state which initrd generator you are using, mkinitrd or dracut.
+> 
+> Col
+> 
+> 
+
+sysvinit I believe (how can I confirm this?) and mkinitrd (simply did a
+cauldron update which included a kernel update - don't even have dracut
+installed.
+
+Hope this helps.
+
+Cheers,
+Robert
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