On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: > 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.
I'd be willing to try this, but what is smartctl a part of? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
