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
