Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0500, David Relson wrote: Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is: none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ??? Should this be reported to b.g.o.?? Odd, that's

[gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
Greetings, 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. FWIW, my usual update world was done yesterday (and emerged the packages listed at the end

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most likely something else broke on your system. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? ### recently

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
H'lo Willie, The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: udev was emerged twice quite recently: 1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2 1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1 My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago. As you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:13:02 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:11:07 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
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

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
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