Re: init died

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 10:58:10AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Exit codes in init are unique. 11 is: it could not open /dev/console,
> tried to mount a tmpfs on /dev and run /dev/MAKEDEV or /etc/MAKEDEV,
> but that somehow failed and there still is no /dev/console.

Thanks for the clue! What a surprise:

# ls
MAKEDEV.local   altq            fd              log

so this box must have been running on a tmpfs /dev since ~forever

I suppose one question is why it couldn't on after this update.
(I'll just get it working...)


Thanks,

Patrick