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?...


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Neil Bothwick

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