On 25/12/12 11:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make > sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. > As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html > I too ran into a situation where I couldn't open any xterms because > /dev/pts was empty. The solution for that user came in 2 parts... > > 1) Add the following line to /etc/fstab > devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 > > 2) Run "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" oops... what udev-mount? I'm > the troublemaker/malcontent who runs mdev instead of udev. > > I noticed that the temporary solution would be to manually execute > "mount devpts". The problem was that it would only last till the next > reboot, after which the mount needed to be issued again. I got around > that by putting "mount devpts" in /etc/local.d/000.start (which file > must be executable). It is executed every bootup, solving the problem. > My questions... > > 1) Is this just my system, or has anybody else with mdev run into it? > If others have the same problem, I'll update the mdev wiki page to > mention this. > > 2) Can someone who uses udev have a look at their "udev-mount" script > and see if it does any other stuff besides mounting devpts? >
Sorry about the html mail ... I just moved to tbird and didnt realise it was selected. BillK
