what happened ??

bejiita · 03-01-2005, 08:09 PM

ok I ran swaret (ver=current) and some pkgs were updated earlier now when I login I get /dev/null permission denied and most of my apps wont work (fluxbox)

how do I correct it ive already run ldconfig, swaret --dep, and clamscan

mdarby · 03-01-2005, 08:15 PM

check /etc/passwd and ensure that the entry for your user account is something like:

Code:

mdarby:x:1208:1009:,,,:/home/mdarby:/bin/bash

kodon · 03-01-2005, 10:15 PM

you should make sure that you're not using repositories
just comment out all the "REPOS_ROOT=" entries if they aren't already

also, what does 'ls -l /dev/null' return?

KMcD · 03-02-2005, 04:09 AM

it's a problem with the package udev-054. I haven't figured out what happened exactly with this package to cause this problem but you should return to the earlier version, udev-050-i486-1.tgz.

Simply get the udev-050-i486-1.tgz package then type:

Code:

upgradepkg udev-050-i486-1.tgz

Reboot and your system will be back to normal.

bejiita · 03-02-2005, 09:00 AM

downgrading udev-54 to udev-50 did it thanx again, man everone at this forum is so much help
also I added udev to the swaret exclude list till the issue w/ this package gets resolved

KMcD · 03-03-2005, 03:56 AM

when using swaret make sure "rollback" is enabled. That way if something like this happens again you'll have the previous version to rollback to. Makes life easier in the long-run believe me.