Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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> On  7 Feb, David Relson wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800
>> James Ausmus wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson
>>> <relson@osagesoftware.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500
>>>> Willie Wong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux
>>>>>> about which I'm poorly informed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped,
>>>>>> so I started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then
>>>>>> restarted udev (which didn't affect /dev/pt*).
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Right, but can you ssh in to the machine now (or open a terminal
>>>>> emulator in X)?
>>>>>
>>>>> /dev/pts is just the mount point for the devpts pseudo
>>>>> filesystem. In modern versions of linux the pts devices are
>>>>> created on-the-fly when requested (as opposed to other versions
>>>>> and some modern unixes where there will be a fixed number of
>>>>> device nodes under /dev/pts or equivalent). All that just goes to
>>>>> say that if /dev/pts is empty right after you restart the devfs
>>>>> service, it is normal. A device file should be created
>>>>> automatically now when userspace programs demand it. (E.g. if you
>>>>> now ssh in, and if it succeeds, ls /dev/pts should show one
>>>>> entry.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Try it, let me know if the problem is still there.
>>>>>            
>>>> Nope.  Both ssh and X terminal emulators are still broken.  No
>>>> change in behavior.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, most of the entries in /dev are timestamped 02/02 23:34 which
>>>> is when I updated udev earlier this week. Today's upgrade/downgrade
>>>> emerge hasn't affected the timestamps.
>>>>
>>>> A comparison of /etc/udev/rules.d to a saved copy didn't show
>>>> much.  The only puzzling difference is:
>>>>   --- 90-hal.rules      (revision 51)
>>>>    +++ 90-hal.rules     (working copy)
>>>>    @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
>>>>     # pass all events to the HAL daemon
>>>>    -RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event"
>>>>    +RUN+="socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event"
>>>>
>>>> removing the "@" and restarting udev hasn't helped.  Since the rule
>>>> is hal related, I also restarted hald -- which hasn't helped.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> What happens if you do:
>>>
>>> mount -t devpts none /dev/pts
>>>
>>> Does the problem go away?
>>>
>>> -James
>>>        
>> Eureka!  Problem fixed.
>>
>> 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.??
>>
>> David
>>
>>      
> I have the following line in my /etc/fstab (I can't remember if I put it
> there myself or not)
>
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
>
> Since a "mount -a" is issued quite early during boot, this is mounted,
> as well.
>
> Helmut.
>
>    

Here's something odd, I don't have that line in mine.

root@smoker / # cat /etc/fstab | grep /dev/pts
root@smoker / #

However it is mounted:

root@smoker / # mount | grep /dev/pts
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
root@smoker / #

Mine is a old install with a really old fstab so that may matter.  I'm 
still on the old baselayout and openrc too.

Dale

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