From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NdruO-0006Bz-2d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:09:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 772F9E0ADA; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 21:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446E0E0ADA for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 21:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39EB7BCA3 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:08:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:08:58 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash Message-ID: <20100206160858.5b36abcf@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20100206150033.GA4059@math.princeton.edu> References: <20100206083344.2ff96f9c@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20100206150033.GA4059@math.princeton.edu> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7a5fce3f-67cd-4f5c-9574-456d9a390137 X-Archives-Hash: a36901cb0f1c38cbd87832aae4cdc191 H'lo Willie, The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: root@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: udev was emerged twice quite recently: 1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2 1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1 My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago. As you seem to suspect udev and /dev/pt* seems b0rked, I'll try downgrading back to 141-r1 to see what happens. Regards, David On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:00:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most > likely something else broke on your system. > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > ssh into box gives: > > > > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > > Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? > > > ### recently emerged packages ### > > How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a > new kernel? Did you upgrade udev by any chance? The only other suspect > that I see is util-linux, but you are on the stable version. > > > > app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 > > app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 > > dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 > > dev-util/global-5.7.7 > > media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a > > media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 > > media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 > > sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 > > virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 > > virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 > > virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1 > > Cheers, > > W > > -- > Willie W. Wong > wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes > quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton