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 1Ndt8Y-0007Q1-I7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:28:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1353CE08E8; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC7DE08E8 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ndt7S-0000mv-Vn for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:27:18 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o16MRE7U026163 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o16MREUH026160 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash Message-ID: <20100206222714.GA25438@math.princeton.edu> References: <20100206083344.2ff96f9c@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20100206151107.GB4059@math.princeton.edu> <20100206164122.7e71bc88@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20100206083344.2ff96f9c@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20100206150033.GA4059@math.princeton.edu> <20100206160858.5b36abcf@osage.osagesoftware.com> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100206164122.7e71bc88@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20100206160858.5b36abcf@osage.osagesoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: b43908bb-55dd-468e-b200-85ccd63bc317 X-Archives-Hash: 5ca69c0b280286cc49d567878b28c229 On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: > > root@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'? W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton