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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] after recent update - openpty failed: 'out of pty devices' - please help?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:10:45
Message-Id: 51CDFBC9.60703@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] after recent update - openpty failed: 'out of pty devices' - please help? by Denis Shcherbakov
1 On 06/28/2013 03:06 PM, Denis Shcherbakov wrote:
2 > openpty failed: 'out of pty devices'
3
4 There was a news item corresponding to the udev upgrade.
5
6 1. udev-postmount init script:
7
8 Remove the udev-postmount init script from your runlevels.
9
10 2. devtmpfs support:
11
12 You need at least version 2.6.32 of the kernel for devtmpfs
13 functionality. Once you have this, make sure CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y is set
14 in the kernel configuration. See the gentoo udev guide for the option in
15 make menuconfig [1].
16
17 If you have a line for /dev in /etc/fstab, make sure it is configured
18 for file system type devtmpfs (not tmpfs or any other type). Also, you
19 can remove this line if you prefer, since devtmpfs is mounted
20 automatically.