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 B8A62138798 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D495221C0B3; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:05:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f45.google.com (mail-oa0-f45.google.com [209.85.219.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F8BA21C005 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id o6so3021985oag.18 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:05:07 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RnlhmWVZJULu0rR7zUE3WQbNNjDWCjtve2p8kUPynxA=; b=mFMT+PrhVbzyQh4K4cDjfS2lyoGG50BbX+ueo0FB4NC5tt+H0hDnVNqjOQef1541go UKRX9FWwHKhFWr/Om6tkvg5J2JS9NPe7IJ338UzdBY5Pzf9gGHUAVJFaVkyafFmuKbyf PoD/ztbahnPP56vJCQjfaapx3tDoACd6jpp+RWq+6wV/gGGamfyM4K/TCcXGzSoSllC0 hoQuXE87LAvhMdWEc5ikTavtMXB2o6XMimwIT5aFnZlhwrC+e+AAIhh4KVf+DD7iERTd AUQtymLMm7B3rbMwDWKIIt0HKI3Je6dt+PFJhr2oAZO9XlMc/EVC+X9R67wQ708YxFfd aymA== 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 10.182.221.4 with SMTP id qa4mr6563582obc.100.1359641107351; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:05:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.20.243 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:05:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:05:07 -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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c3fe439a-cfc6-40f2-90fc-5a29261752be X-Archives-Hash: 40571d7ecfa605a222254f1e73d5831a On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Michael Mol wrote= : >>>>> So, I botched the upgrade to udev-191. I thought I'd followed the >>>>> steps, but I apparently only covered them for one machine, not both. >>>>> >>>>> The news item instructions specified that I had to remove >>>>> udev-postmount from my runlevels. I didn't have udev-postmount in my >>>>> runlevels, so I didn't remove it. Turns out, that dictum also applies >>>>> to udev-mount. So after removing that[1], I was able to at least boot >>>>> again. >>>>> >>>>> Udev also complained about DEVTMPFS not being enabled in the >>>>> kernel.[2] I couldn't get into X, but I could log in via getty and a >>>>> plain old vt, so I enabled it, rebuilt the kernel, installed it and >>>>> rebooted...and now that's presumably covered. >>>>> >>>>> I'm now able to get into X, but when I try to run an xterm, it fails. >>>>> Checking ~/.xsession_errors, I find: >>>>> >>>>> xterm: Error 32, error 2: No such file or directory >>>>> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys >>>> >>>> Do you have CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=3Dy? If so, do you really need it? A >>>> little over a year ago[1] I had an annoying issue for having that >>>> option enabled in my kernel, with a lot of virtual ttys reported in >>>> systemctl. This is a shot in the dark (I really don't know if it's >>>> related to your problem), but perhaps having the LEGACY_PTYS option >>>> enabled somehow depleted your available pseudo terminals (which any X >>>> terminal needs to run)? I suppose screen is also out of the question >>>> for the same reason. >> >> No, I don't have CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYs. I do have UNIX98 PTYs, and I >> tried enabling alternate namespaces, but that didn't help either. >> >>> >>> Also related, if you have LEGACY_PTYS: >>> >>> "LEGACY_PTY_COUNT: >>> >>> The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. >>> The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded >>> systems may want to reduce this to save memory. >>> >>> When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit >>> architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures." >> >> Yeah, I'm not using CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY, so LEGACY_PTY_COUNT doesn't >> even make itself available in menuconfig. > > Hm. Some googling suggests this might be a permissions issue. > > I do have consolekit enabled, but I'm using gdm, so I'd expect that to > take care of itself. (Although screen fails to launch from vt1, so > it's not a consolekit problem.) OK, it looks like /dev/pts is not mounted. But darned if I know why...Isn't udev supposed to handle that? -- :wq