On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 > James Ausmus wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson >> <rel...@osagesoftware.com>wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 >> > Willie Wong wrote: >> > >> > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: >> > > > Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux >> > > > about which I'm poorly informed. >> > > > >> > > > Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped, >> > > > so I started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then >> > > > restarted udev (which didn't affect /dev/pt*). >> > > >> > > Right, but can you ssh in to the machine now (or open a terminal >> > > emulator in X)? >> > > >> > > /dev/pts is just the mount point for the devpts pseudo >> > > filesystem. In modern versions of linux the pts devices are >> > > created on-the-fly when requested (as opposed to other versions >> > > and some modern unixes where there will be a fixed number of >> > > device nodes under /dev/pts or equivalent). All that just goes to >> > > say that if /dev/pts is empty right after you restart the devfs >> > > service, it is normal. A device file should be created >> > > automatically now when userspace programs demand it. (E.g. if you >> > > now ssh in, and if it succeeds, ls /dev/pts should show one >> > > entry.) >> > > >> > > Try it, let me know if the problem is still there. >> > >> > Nope. Both ssh and X terminal emulators are still broken. No >> > change in behavior. >> > >> > FWIW, most of the entries in /dev are timestamped 02/02 23:34 which >> > is when I updated udev earlier this week. Today's upgrade/downgrade >> > emerge hasn't affected the timestamps. >> > >> > A comparison of /etc/udev/rules.d to a saved copy didn't show >> > much. The only puzzling difference is: >> > --- 90-hal.rules (revision 51) >> > +++ 90-hal.rules (working copy) >> > @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ >> > # pass all events to the HAL daemon >> > -RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" >> > +RUN+="socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" >> > >> > removing the "@" and restarting udev hasn't helped. Since the rule >> > is hal related, I also restarted hald -- which hasn't helped. >> > >> > >> What happens if you do: >> >> mount -t devpts none /dev/pts >> >> Does the problem go away? >> >> -James > > Eureka! Problem fixed. > > Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is: > > none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 > > Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of > emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ??? Should this be reported to > b.g.o.?? > > David >
I have the following line in my /etc/fstab (I can't remember if I put it there myself or not) devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 Since a "mount -a" is issued quite early during boot, this is mounted, as well. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
