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