Re: Missing /dev/null after few min

2008-03-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthias Gamsjäger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I'm running freebsd for couple of years now and never had really big
 problems but this one I can't solve on my own. Running releng 7 for 6 months
 now but recently after running X for like 10min the systems is missing
 /dev/null. So you can imaging that most programs start complaining about it.
 Right now I recreate it with mknod /dev/null c 1 3 but that's not a real
 solution because it starts to disappear again after few minutes.
 I'm for 99% sure it's not freebsd problem but more a application problem but
 I wonder if anyone ran into the same trouble after upgrading xyz port? Or
 even better has a solution for it?

Yep, something is deleting it.
Something with permissions to delete it, which shouldn't be many
things. First make sure that it has the correct permissions, then
check what's running as root.

You might be able to find a process that has a file handle open on
/dev/null or even on /dev itself, but I'd consider that a long shot.
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Re: Missing /dev/null after few min

2008-03-20 Thread Matthias Gamsjäger
The guilty package seems the be gnash.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Lowell Gilbert 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Matthias Gamsjäger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  I'm running freebsd for couple of years now and never had really big
  problems but this one I can't solve on my own. Running releng 7 for 6
 months
  now but recently after running X for like 10min the systems is missing
  /dev/null. So you can imaging that most programs start complaining about
 it.
  Right now I recreate it with mknod /dev/null c 1 3 but that's not a real
  solution because it starts to disappear again after few minutes.
  I'm for 99% sure it's not freebsd problem but more a application problem
 but
  I wonder if anyone ran into the same trouble after upgrading xyz port?
 Or
  even better has a solution for it?

 Yep, something is deleting it.
 Something with permissions to delete it, which shouldn't be many
 things. First make sure that it has the correct permissions, then
 check what's running as root.

 You might be able to find a process that has a file handle open on
 /dev/null or even on /dev itself, but I'd consider that a long shot.

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