On Monday 22 Sep 2003 7:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 09:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Whilst troubleshooting my problems with GnomeMeeting, (having > > been told by the GM list that devfsd was probably the cause of my > > trouble) I came across this: > > > > <quote> > > The following addition needed to be added to '/etc/fstab': > > > > none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 > > > > This line causes usbdevfs to dump the condition of USB into > > /proc/bus/usb, as it changes, to keep it up to date. > > > > The following deletion had to be made in '/etc/fstab': > > > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > > > This line needed to be removed because devfsd controls > > '/dev/pts', too, > > and there had been reports to the author that the two running > > together caused problems. So, use one or the other, but not both. > > I find it interesting that the Mandrake install would not have > > dealt with this considering this is a condition that was there > > from the very beginning. > > </quote> > > > > Would anyone care to comment on that? > > > > Anne > > Anne, I'm just curious - have you tried it yet, to see if it makes > a diff?
No - I've mulled it over. I just wondered if anyone knows enough about devfs to tell me if it would be disastrous. Otherwise, I might try it tomorrow. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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