From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:15:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5087878B.2090502@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50878461.2080106@st.com>
On 10/24/2012 08:02 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I did an "emerge -NuD world", it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to
>> go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed.
>> This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal,
>> XTerm or UXTerm.
>>
>> In more detail, I get the Konsole window, the menu is there and I can
>> open other tabs etc, but instead of the command prompt, I just get a
>> small grey blob in the top left hand corner. Hitting return does not get
>> me any carriage returns.
>>
>
> Same here on two different boxes, ~x86 and ~amd64. I'm on LXDE,
> ~/.lxde_errors reports that rxvt could not start due to lack of
> pseudo-terminals. Issuing
> # mount /dev/pts
> by hand temporarily solves the issue.
>
> A related issue might be that during the boot I see that /dev/shm could
> not be mounted. /dev/pts and /dev/shm are both mounted by
> /etc/init.d/devfs, maybe that's failing?
>
> The last emerge pulled in
> sys-apps/openrc-0.11.1
> sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1
>
> but neither one has any bugs open relevant to this. Other ideas?
>
> raf
>
Forgot to mention that you can issue the mount command above from a text
terminal (CTRL-ALT-Fx).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 2:31 [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!! Andrew Lowe
2012-10-24 4:17 ` Andrew Lowe
2012-10-24 7:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-25 19:27 ` Mick
2012-10-26 2:57 ` Andrew Lowe
2012-10-26 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-26 18:18 ` Mick
2012-10-26 6:42 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2012-10-24 6:02 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2012-10-24 6:15 ` Raffaele BELARDI [this message]
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