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 382AB1381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1C52E07CA; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:56:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out2.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out2.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4B7E07BA for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:55:12 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EAFMj2VB8qfJJ/2dsb2JhbABEvXAWc4IeAQEFgQkLDQsJJQ8CRhMIAQEXh3cNphKPbIxyf4MpA4hgjSyBHIRPIoo7gwGBVwkXBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,351,1355068800"; d="scan'208";a="73379135" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.242.73]) by icp-osb-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 25 Dec 2012 11:55:01 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF68E44675 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:54:59 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TO7EikuDcXl7 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:54:46 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.1] (moriah [192.168.44.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF01547F42 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:54:43 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <50D92383.10603@iinet.net.au> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:54:43 +0800 From: William Kenworthy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 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] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround. References: <20121225032100.GA1835@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20121225032100.GA1835@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 12b1f258-2efa-4941-a4e1-9587e78458b6 X-Archives-Hash: 2e0bfef2b830b06697ed105401819b48 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? > Sorry about the html mail ... I just moved to tbird and didnt realise it was selected. BillK