On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short:
>
> r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts
> /dev/ptmx
>
> /dev/pts:
That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals
running in X?
> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > > This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation
> > > problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no
> > > problems starting X applications like firefox and open office.
> >
> > Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you are in X, hit ctrl-alt-f2 and try
> > to log into the console?
>
> Works fine ...
>
> Looking at "ls -l /dev/vc*" I see timestamps of "2010-02-02 23:34". At
> 23:31 that day,
>
> openrc was upgraded from 0.3.0-r1 to 0.6.0-r1.
> sysvinit was upgraded from 2.86-r10 to 2.87-r
This is possibly a problem. I am guessing that if you issue 'mount',
devpts is not mounted. The mounting of that pseudo filesystem is
relegated to /etc/init.d/devfs, which belongs to openrc.
What is the output of 'rc-status sysinit'?
W
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