The automatic saving and reloading of permissions and ownerships by devfsd is not compatible with Unix98 ptys (in /dev/pts). Imagine a user A trying to get a pty, for example by starting an xterm. If there's a saved inode /dev-state/pts/<whatever> owned by user B, and the next free number in /dev/pts equals <whatever>, devfsd will replace the automatically created inode with the saved, which is owned by B. So A does not have any chance at all to get another pty. I propose to add the following lines to the default devfsd.conf, just above the last three lines: REGISTER ^pts/.* IGNORE CHANGE ^pts/.* IGNORE CREATE ^pts/.* IGNORE This fixed the problem for me. If you know a better solution, please let me know. -- Christian Ullrich Registrierter Linux-User #125183 "Sie können nach R'ed'mond fliegen -- aber Sie werden sterben" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
