The error message come from findtty(), which looks in /dev/ for the device of stdin. Could it be that you are using a pty in /dev/pts/ when bootlogd fail?
What is the output from the 'tty' command before the call to bootlogd fail? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org