On 10/24/2012 08:02 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> I did an "emerge -NuD world", it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to >> go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. >> This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal, >> XTerm or UXTerm. >> >> In more detail, I get the Konsole window, the menu is there and I can >> open other tabs etc, but instead of the command prompt, I just get a >> small grey blob in the top left hand corner. Hitting return does not get >> me any carriage returns. >> > > Same here on two different boxes, ~x86 and ~amd64. I'm on LXDE, > ~/.lxde_errors reports that rxvt could not start due to lack of > pseudo-terminals. Issuing > # mount /dev/pts > by hand temporarily solves the issue. > > A related issue might be that during the boot I see that /dev/shm could > not be mounted. /dev/pts and /dev/shm are both mounted by > /etc/init.d/devfs, maybe that's failing? > > The last emerge pulled in > sys-apps/openrc-0.11.1 > sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1 > > but neither one has any bugs open relevant to this. Other ideas? > > raf >
Forgot to mention that you can issue the mount command above from a text terminal (CTRL-ALT-Fx).
