[gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

[gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot  
start an xterm anymore.
In the logs I get "opentty failed  out of pty devices"

This occurred after a reboot today. It must have something to do with a  
recent update to udev.
I remember a similar problem a few days or weeks ago on a machine which  
is rebooted each day.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember the fix (probably something connected  
to starting some processes at boot time)

Does anybody remember what the fix was?

Many thanks,
Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:53:57 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I cannot  
> start an xterm anymore.
> In the logs I get "opentty failed  out of pty devices"

Add udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel, like the emerge message told you.

This is why I set portage to email me all ewarn messages, so I don't miss
important information like this.

How long will it be before portage tweets ewarns instead?...


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

[Helmut Jarausch]

Many thanks Neil for the quick help.
Probably I should stop using openrc and switch to systemd.
I haven't followed the thread(s) on this list on systemd, I just wonder  
why GenToo still sticks to
openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd.

Helmut.


On 10/29/2012 11:02:58 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:53:57 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> 
> > I've managed to make one of my systems next to unusable since I  
> cannot
> > start an xterm anymore.
> > In the logs I get "opentty failed  out of pty devices"
> 
> Add udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel, like the emerge message told  
> you.
> 
> This is why I set portage to email me all ewarn messages, so I don't  
> miss
> important information like this.
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

[Markos Chandras]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Many thanks Neil for the quick help.
> Probably I should stop using openrc and switch to systemd.
> I haven't followed the thread(s) on this list on systemd, I just wonder why
> GenToo still sticks to
> openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd.
>

Nobody stops you from using systemd in Gentoo. The ebuild is there so
feel free to use it. Gentoo is all about
choice.

-- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2

[gentoo-user] Re: [urgent] openpty out of pty devices

[walt]

On 10/29/2012 03:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> I just wonder why GenToo still sticks to
> openrc while other distributions have switched to systemd.

Not all gentoo packages have been updated with systemd *.service
files, which live in /usr/lib/systemd/system/.

I installed a live-CD virtual install of cinnarch, which does use
systemd, just so I can copy the scripts from /usr/lib/systemd/system
over to my gentoo machines.  Unfortunately I've been distracted
by my shiny new Nexus 7 tablet and I've neglected systemd most
shamefully ;)