On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:36:41AM +0000, Penguin Lover Alan Mackenzie > squawked: >> How did this breakage happen? I would guess that at the time the >> installation procedure was devised, this line >> >> # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev >> >> worked perfectly OK, since /dev didn't have any subdirectories. Some >> time recently, /dev acquired subdirectories (e.g. /dev/pts), but nobody >> realised this would render the chrooted system less capable. > > Just to be pedantic. > > Not subdirectories. 'mount --bind' binds the directory tree. What /dev > picked up was submounts, which is why you issued 'mount --rbind' as a > workaround. (The mount manpage I think has something about devpts.) > > I wonder if 'mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts' is a better workaround > for your problem, though. > > Cheers, > > W > > -- > M: Hot almond milk. Best stuff on earth. > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1098 days, 14:03
That one only works if the kernel of your install disk is configured to allow multiple instances of devpts to be mounted (CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES) ... I'm in no way certain if that's enabled on the Gentoo generated livecds, currently. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
