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* [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.
@ 2012-12-25  3:21 Walter Dnes
  2012-12-25  3:51 ` William Kenworthy
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Walter Dnes @ 2012-12-25  3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo Users List

  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?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


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