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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:35:06 -0500 |
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> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> So, I botched the upgrade to udev-191. I thought I'd followed the |
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>> steps, but I apparently only covered them for one machine, not both. |
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>> |
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>> The news item instructions specified that I had to remove |
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>> udev-postmount from my runlevels. I didn't have udev-postmount in my |
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>> runlevels, so I didn't remove it. Turns out, that dictum also applies |
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>> to udev-mount. So after removing that[1], I was able to at least boot |
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>> again. |
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>> |
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>> Udev also complained about DEVTMPFS not being enabled in the |
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>> kernel.[2] I couldn't get into X, but I could log in via getty and a |
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>> plain old vt, so I enabled it, rebuilt the kernel, installed it and |
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>> rebooted...and now that's presumably covered. |
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>> I'm now able to get into X, but when I try to run an xterm, it fails. |
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>> Checking ~/.xsession_errors, I find: |
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>> xterm: Error 32, error 2: No such file or directory |
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>> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys |
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>> I find this bizarre, as I'd never had any trouble with xterm in this |
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>> way before. What'd I do wrong, and how do I recover? I don't trust |
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>> emerging at this point; I tried re-emerging udev, and I aborted after |
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>> I saw an stderr line about failing to open a pty, even though portage |
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>> does quiet builds for parallel building by default...so I doubt |
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>> whatever emitted that line on stderr was being properly guarded |
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>> against the failure. |
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>> |
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>> [1] I didn't have a boot cd or similar to work with, so I used the old |
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>> init=/bin/sh trick on the command line. That was functional. And then |
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>> I tried init=/usr/bin/vim, and things got real. :) |
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>> |
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>> [2] Sparking a bemused discussion with a friend at tonight's LUG |
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>> meeting over the devfs->udev->udev+devtmpfs progression, but that's a |
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>> different story. |
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> I can't get any kernel >=gentoo-sources-3.7.1 to work properly with |
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> vtys either. |
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> 3.7.1 is fine, anything earlier is fine. |
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> I haven't bothered tracking it down further than that (have a severe |
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> dose of laziness right now...) |
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> What kernel are you running on these affected hosts? |
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gentoo-sources-3.6.11 |
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Note my vtys worked fine, it was just the ptys which failed. |
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