On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer
<colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>> x
>>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colleen
>>>>>
>>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep devpts
>>>>> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $
>>>>>
>>>>> But I haven't a clue how, if you've done no updates, your init scripts
>>>>> wouldn't be just like everyone else. (Assuming Volker's and mine are
>>>>> the same which they seem to be...)
>>>>>
>>>>> - Mark
>>>>
>>>> Thanks all for the suggestions. I'm going to leave this for tonight
>>>> 'cause I am totally confused
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Colleen
>>>>
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>>>
>>> On the off chance you missed a post-update message that came from (I
>>> think) maybe a dbus update awhile back, try
>>>
>>> emerge -1 gobject-introspection
>>>
>>> and then restart dbus and/or reboot to test.
>>
>> Tried this - all I got was an reinstallation of glibc and it didn't
>> solve the problem.
>
> sys-apps/openrc installs the /etc/init.d/devfs script which as Volker has
> explained sets the /dev/pts ownership.
>
> As long as Coleen has not set up the /devfs in her /etc/fstab a remerge of
> openrc followed by a reboot should put things into place.
>
> Since there were no updates/upgrades immediately prior to this error, this
> could well have been a result of fs corruption, or memory problems. It
would
> make sense to check what smartctl -a /dev/sda shows just in case.

I'd be willing to try this, but what is smartctl a part of?

Regards,

Colleen

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