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 1Rhnep-00020n-Qs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:34:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AC0D21C2AC; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B419621C328 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfk26 with SMTP id fk26so13105827vcb.40 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=7lqDoDnpYT4a6IT83NpXLNdX4IessFusmMlIjvi6TZ4=; b=RBovkI3eIRF7bxn7pWXzuc2RG44Lw9FtahfEBxJWMwxFjoeXmnQNS4co3Xo/fNo+RF OiHKE+iAH1lhJOXcGAnlLAwCsO/Unei7ExqpGaRySINvzvcRBg3ebPFHJROwctpszC4+ DCnIDCQMD99vOWsmVqBRaazTKefPAvdV73ySY= Received: by 10.220.213.133 with SMTP id gw5mr27856937vcb.70.1325532754287; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.15] (bas1-hamilton02-1176408411.dsl.bell.ca. [70.30.145.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dr9sm28030675vdb.17.2012.01.02.11.32.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:32:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F020652.8030101@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:32:34 -0500 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111126 Thunderbird/8.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue References: <4F00B505.6050908@gmail.com> <4F0115A9.6000601@gmail.com> <201201020958.13471.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201201020958.13471.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000108010301030603080301" X-Archives-Salt: 22b504ef-7839-4bcb-8f5d-ff1468203aa4 X-Archives-Hash: f8406a80cbbcaf82a9d6cf147d0d4cb3 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000108010301030603080301 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > wrote: >>>> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>> x >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, >>>> http://counter.li.org >>> >>> 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 -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org --------------000108010301030603080301 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter,
>>>> http://counter.li.org
>>>
>>> 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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Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org

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