Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

[Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>]

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is:
> 
>    none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> 
> Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of
> emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ???  Should this be reported to
> b.g.o.??

Odd, that's one of the two things  /etc/init.d/devfs is supposed to
do. (The other is to mount tmpfs.) The whole point of that script is
to provide those two filesystems in case the user "forgot" to specify
them in /etc/fstab.

If this is reproducible (say, after next reboot devpts still doesn't
come up, while devfs is started), then something is wrong. Filing a
bug report likely won't help because it works on mostly everyone
else's system; you should probably ping the list again to find out
what the source of the problem is. 

A work around would be to just add the appropriate line to /etc/fstab.
the devfs script is smart enough to check if the devpts and tmpfs are
already mounted, so it should break anything additional.

Cheers,

W
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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
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