[Sussex] A problem with devpts

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Thu Feb 10 23:28:30 UTC 2005


On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:29:20PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> Steve -
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:55:47PM +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> > So, I should have said. Yes, it is. I event tried mounting a second
> > time - I found documentation on the web saying you could, and should,
> > do this for chroot environments.
> 
> Or doing a 'mount --bind'.  Hmm, I have to say I can't offer much of a
> suggestion other than:
> 
> # cd /dev && MAKEDEV pty

Not a fix I think I should have to do with devpts mounted (which
mount says it is).

> Can you also double-check that you _do_ have devpts support in the
> kernel.  Even if you "grep -i pts /boot/config-$(uname -r)" and paste
> the output in here so that we can see it...

# grep -i pts /boot/config-$(uname -r)
# CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS_XATTR is not set

This matches the output from my laptop which is running a 2.6 kernel

Steve




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