On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 01/01/12 20:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> x > >>> <SNIP> > >>> > >>>> Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Colleen > >>> > >>> mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep devpts > >>> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > >>> mark@c2stable ~ $ > >>> > >>> But I haven't a clue how, if you've done no updates, your init scripts > >>> wouldn't be just like everyone else. (Assuming Volker's and mine are > >>> the same which they seem to be...) > >>> > >>> - Mark > >> > >> Thanks all for the suggestions. I'm going to leave this for tonight > >> 'cause I am totally confused > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Colleen > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, > >> http://counter.li.org > > > > On the off chance you missed a post-update message that came from (I > > think) maybe a dbus update awhile back, try > > > > emerge -1 gobject-introspection > > > > and then restart dbus and/or reboot to test. > > Tried this - all I got was an reinstallation of glibc and it didn't > solve the problem.
sys-apps/openrc installs the /etc/init.d/devfs script which as Volker has explained sets the /dev/pts ownership. As long as Coleen has not set up the /devfs in her /etc/fstab a remerge of openrc followed by a reboot should put things into place. Since there were no updates/upgrades immediately prior to this error, this could well have been a result of fs corruption, or memory problems. It would make sense to check what smartctl -a /dev/sda shows just in case. -- Regards, Mick
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