Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:36:41AM +0000, Penguin Lover Alan Mackenzie squawked:
>> How did this breakage happen?  I would guess that at the time the
>> installation procedure was devised, this line
>>
>>     # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
>>
>> worked perfectly OK, since /dev didn't have any subdirectories.  Some
>> time recently, /dev acquired subdirectories (e.g. /dev/pts), but nobody
>> realised this would render the chrooted system less capable.
>
> Just to be pedantic.
>
> Not subdirectories. 'mount --bind' binds the directory tree. What /dev
> picked up was submounts, which is why you issued 'mount --rbind' as a
> workaround. (The mount manpage I think has something about devpts.)
>
> I wonder if 'mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts' is a better workaround
> for your problem, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> W
>
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That one only works if the kernel of your install disk is configured
to allow multiple instances of devpts to be mounted
(CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES) ... I'm in no way certain if that's
enabled on the Gentoo generated livecds, currently.

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