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 B60601387A3 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F00B21C03E; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:29:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com (mail-ob0-f178.google.com [209.85.214.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99D2CE0639 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wd20so3200117obb.37 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=o1UmkA/bX/zIpc3MOYnGJpoX5M0Chs09GZ/RVlOv3Bs=; b=anOAivUqXJrYvKinnTZbSlSXyaPcY8PeyPZJVBvcmzRheBb7+WKb6FwAQZ2QXCI5kP WhhYdY1gkP7JWeXHThm9xSudwdAtSXhgodfjBEAw1VOim+Hv7b07B6qZiGnGoiR2PkHR tBO0VAT4diYO9vir7Q4QoW+G9xVygIbigAGcOshKQCN5Jexz6EwcOWZ++wwFUTzr4OkS e8d2oSki5pIYOnCWrxu5zO2Au2hhiuq1AqYQTOqtuWyVVD6bQUj80chaKS6ZV3eaFeXw ydqN8p6msYKlM69jOEH0lmEQFGEg45tGjNa77/g34xZOJCRfKiNP33Qd+DK47dM1hzSh o36w== 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-Received: by 10.60.30.201 with SMTP id u9mr7534789oeh.28.1359656946802; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.20.243 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:29:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201301311824.29755.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201301311430.06572.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201301311824.29755.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d14f98fe-a541-4a2e-b7f2-e554a140e944 X-Archives-Hash: 2e4503f29a5dbc3f29188414224c450a On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 31 Jan 2013 14:37:00 Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Peter Humphrey >> >> wrote: >> > On Thursday 31 January 2013 14:05:07 Michael Mol wrote: >> >> OK, it looks like /dev/pts is not mounted. But darned if I know >> >> why...Isn't udev supposed to handle that? >> > >> > Why did you remove udev-mount from the sysinit level? I left mine alone >> > and it all works just fine. >> >> Because, when I initially rebooted, openrc failed to launch the >> udev-mount service, and I couldn't get any farther in the boot >> sequence until I removed it. (Which involved removing the symlink in >> /etc/runlevels, since rc-update kept failing while complaining about >> being unable to update dependencies.) >> >> It seems possible now that the reason the udev-mount service failed to >> start was because of the missing CONFIG_DEVTMPFS kernel config option. >> I can try adding udev-mount back to see if it works. > > Well, I have udev-mount running: > > rc-update -s -v | grep udev > udev | sysinit > udev-mount | sysinit > > and do not have CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT enabled. devpts is created fine and I > have no problems booting: > > mount | grep devpts > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620) > > > You may want to try the same in case it works? I probably will re-add udev-mount. It's certainly plausible it only failed because of the lack of CONFIG_DEVTMPFS, and having CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT enabled fixed basic pty and shm functionality for me. It's also worth noting that whether or not you use an initramfs (I don't on this machine) can make a difference. -- :wq