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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Cc: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:22:03
Message-Id: 5087878B.2090502@st.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!! by Raffaele BELARDI
1 On 10/24/2012 08:02 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
2 > On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
3 >> Hi all,
4 >> I did an "emerge -NuD world", it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to
5 >> go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed.
6 >> This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal,
7 >> XTerm or UXTerm.
8 >>
9 >> In more detail, I get the Konsole window, the menu is there and I can
10 >> open other tabs etc, but instead of the command prompt, I just get a
11 >> small grey blob in the top left hand corner. Hitting return does not get
12 >> me any carriage returns.
13 >>
14 >
15 > Same here on two different boxes, ~x86 and ~amd64. I'm on LXDE,
16 > ~/.lxde_errors reports that rxvt could not start due to lack of
17 > pseudo-terminals. Issuing
18 > # mount /dev/pts
19 > by hand temporarily solves the issue.
20 >
21 > A related issue might be that during the boot I see that /dev/shm could
22 > not be mounted. /dev/pts and /dev/shm are both mounted by
23 > /etc/init.d/devfs, maybe that's failing?
24 >
25 > The last emerge pulled in
26 > sys-apps/openrc-0.11.1
27 > sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1
28 >
29 > but neither one has any bugs open relevant to this. Other ideas?
30 >
31 > raf
32 >
33
34 Forgot to mention that you can issue the mount command above from a text
35 terminal (CTRL-ALT-Fx).