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On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 |
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Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> > The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: |
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> > root@osage / # ls /dev/pts |
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> > /dev/ptmx |
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> > |
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> > /dev/pts: |
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> That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals |
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> running in X? |
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> > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> > > > This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process |
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> > > > creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. |
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> > > > There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and |
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> > > > open office. |
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> > > |
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> > > Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you are in X, hit ctrl-alt-f2 |
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> > > and try to log into the console? |
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> > Works fine ... |
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> > Looking at "ls -l /dev/vc*" I see timestamps of "2010-02-02 |
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> > 23:34". At 23:31 that day, |
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> > openrc was upgraded from 0.3.0-r1 to 0.6.0-r1. |
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> > sysvinit was upgraded from 2.86-r10 to 2.87-r |
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> This is possibly a problem. I am guessing that if you issue 'mount', |
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> devpts is not mounted. The mounting of that pseudo filesystem is |
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> relegated to /etc/init.d/devfs, which belongs to openrc. |
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> What is the output of 'rc-status sysinit'? |
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Hi Willie, |
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Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about |
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which I'm poorly informed. |
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Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped, so I |
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started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted udev |
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(which didn't affect /dev/pt*). |
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Regards, |
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David |
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### output follows ### |
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root@osage portage # rc-status sysinit |
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Runlevel: sysinit |
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dmesg [ stopped ] |
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udev [ started ] |
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devfs [ stopped ] |
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root@osage portage # service devfs status |
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* status: started |
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root@osage portage # rc-status sysinit |
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Runlevel: sysinit |
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dmesg [ stopped ] |
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udev [ started ] |
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devfs [ started ] |
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root@osage portage # ls /dev/pt* |
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/dev/ptmx |
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/dev/pts: |
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root@osage portage # service udev restart |
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* WARNING: you are stopping a sysinit service |
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* Stopping udevd ... [ ok ] |
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* Starting udevd ... [ ok ] |
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* Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] |
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* Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ ok ] |
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root@osage portage # ls /dev/pt* |
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/dev/ptmx |
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/dev/pts: |
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root@osage portage # |
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