From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A7F138010 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:22:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C2A2E04CB; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:21:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog107.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog107.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.123]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91A0E04D2 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:20:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.dmz-eu.st.com ([164.129.1.35]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob107.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKUIeIrRdKkcroBJvcjm5PYqlPVIouc6k6@postini.com; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:20:36 UTC Received: from zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (zeta.dmz-eu.st.com [164.129.230.9]) by beta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 6EAAAB2; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Webmail-eu.st.com (safex1hubcas3.st.com [10.75.90.18]) by zeta.dmz-eu.st.com (STMicroelectronics) with ESMTP id 297BA227D; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:20:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from SAFEX1MAIL4.st.com ([10.75.90.10]) by SAFEX1HUBCAS3.st.com ([10.75.90.18]) with mapi; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:20:28 +0200 From: Raffaele BELARDI To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Cc: Andrew Lowe Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:15:39 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!! Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!! Thread-Index: Ac2xr6joCXx4ZIwGTH+X8owK8QKjUw== Message-ID: <5087878B.2090502@st.com> References: <50875301.7010003@wht.com.au> <50878461.2080106@st.com> In-Reply-To: <50878461.2080106@st.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121022 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.1 x-enigmail-version: 1.5a1pre acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 X-Archives-Salt: c7fed1a5-310b-4579-a260-7e745c52791a X-Archives-Hash: 5eab558f36382a2c55ad5181d9940fa1 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=20 >> go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed.= =20 >> This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal,=20 >> XTerm or UXTerm. >> >> In more detail, I get the Konsole window, the menu is there and I can=20 >> open other tabs etc, but instead of the command prompt, I just get a=20 >> small grey blob in the top left hand corner. Hitting return does not get= =20 >> me any carriage returns. >> >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > The last emerge pulled in > sys-apps/openrc-0.11.1 > sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1 >=20 > but neither one has any bugs open relevant to this. Other ideas? >=20 > raf >=20 Forgot to mention that you can issue the mount command above from a text terminal (CTRL-ALT-Fx).=