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On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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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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Right, but can you ssh in to the machine now (or open a terminal |
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emulator in X)? |
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/dev/pts is just the mount point for the devpts pseudo filesystem. In |
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modern versions of linux the pts devices are created on-the-fly when |
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requested (as opposed to other versions and some modern unixes where |
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there will be a fixed number of device nodes under /dev/pts or |
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equivalent). All that just goes to say that if /dev/pts is empty |
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right after you restart the devfs service, it is normal. A device file |
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should be created automatically now when userspace programs demand it. |
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(E.g. if you now ssh in, and if it succeeds, ls /dev/pts should show |
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one entry.) |
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Try it, let me know if the problem is still there. |
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Cheers, |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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