On 25/12/12 11:21, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make
> sure I have my ducks in a row.  I did a big update a couple of days ago.
> As per the user in...  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html
> I too ran into a situation where I couldn't open any xterms because
> /dev/pts was empty.  The solution for that user came in 2 parts...
>
> 1) Add the following line to /etc/fstab
> devpts     /dev/pts      devpts      defaults 0 0
>
> 2) Run "rc-update add udev-mount sysinit" oops... what udev-mount?  I'm
> the troublemaker/malcontent who runs mdev instead of udev.
>
>   I noticed that the temporary solution would be to manually execute
> "mount devpts".  The problem was that it would only last till the next
> reboot, after which the mount needed to be issued again.  I got around
> that by putting "mount devpts" in /etc/local.d/000.start (which file
> must be executable).  It is executed every bootup, solving the problem.
> My questions...
>
> 1) Is this just my system, or has anybody else with mdev run into it?
> If others have the same problem, I'll update the mdev wiki page to
> mention this.
>
> 2) Can someone who uses udev have a look at their "udev-mount" script
> and see if it does any other stuff besides mounting devpts?
>

It does a few other things ... attached it here as its not that long.

BillK