Hi Bruce: == Alex: I was at kernel 3.6.1 and udev 182 Life was beautiful. I upgraded to udev 195. '/dev/pts' is no longer created. Same situation if now I go to 3.6.6 or 3.6.7. Strangely, I my new machine that I'm trying to get it off the ground 'dev/pts' has also disappeared (kernel 3.6.7 BUT udev 182!). Before troubleshooting, I'm figuring maybe it'd be useful to know how and where '/dev/pts' used to be created (during 'udevd' running?, etc.).
== Bruce: mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts -o gid=5,mode=775 should do it. == Alex: I said very clearly, '/dev/pts' is no longer created. If /dev/pts is not there how can your mount succeed??!! As an aside, your mount is essentially what happens during the 'mountfs' run on boot-up. The failure of 'mountfs' clearly displayed on the console is an early warning for me that there'll be trouble in paradise (not longer an 'xterm', etc.) == Bruce: Do you have it in /etc/fstab: devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=775 0 0 == Alex: Of course I do. Otherwise how can the mount in 'mountfs' could have succeded in 3.6.1/182 ??!! I did say, "I was at kernel 3.6.1 and udev 182 Life was beautiful." meaning '/dev/pts' must have been there. Otherwise, how could I have said, "I upgraded to udev 195. '/dev/pts' is NO LONGER created." ??!! == Bruce: I'm pretty sure udev has nothing to do with mounting /dev/pts. == Alex: As I said, '/dev/pts' was _created_ (NOT mounted) somehow. That's the very reason of the post's title, "How is 'dev/pts' created (or not)?". As I said, "Before troubleshooting, I'm figuring maybe it'd be useful to know how and where '/dev/pts' used to be created". If I knew, I might be able to fix the thing that was broken from udev 182 to 195, and left broken from kernel 3.6.1 to 3.6.7. Cheers, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
