[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recreate /dev/null

[Alexander Eremin]

Boot from alternate BE or CD should help. Mount this BE and run  
devfsadm against mountdir.

On Apr 25, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:30:35PM +0200, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> How about removing both /devices/pseudo/mm at null* and /dev/null and
>> then trying devfsadm?
>
> # rm /dev/null
> rm: cannot remove `/dev/null': No such file or directory
> # rm /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null
> rm: cannot remove `/devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null': Operation not  
> applicable
> # devfsadm
> devfsadm: cannot create link: /dev/null -> ../devices/pseudo/ 
> mm at 0:null.
> max attempts exceeded
>
>> Maybe also try to rsync (or tar/cpio/...) the device nodes from some
>> other device tree, such as live media or an alternate BE, or via LAN
>> with manually enabled networking?
>
> I tried a few things, they didn't work either with no such file or
> directory errors :(
>
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Thanks,
Alexander