On 12/02/2012 01:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just built two systems, one of HLFS-development and one LFS-7.2.
>
> Not sure what I did wrong, but neither system would successfully mount
> /dev/pts or /dev/shm on bootup - both were complaining about
> nonexistant mount points.  After searching the web for a few hours, I
> came across one lonely half suggestion for a fix... and it works.
>
> In the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/mountfs
> I added the following at line 38
>      (   below    boot_mesg "Mounting remaining file systems"  )
>      mkdir /dev/{pts,shm}
>
> It worked.
>
> DJ

That should not be needed. I believe this points to a problem with Udev, 
as it should create /dev/pts when it starts. Did you deviate from the 
book's instructions in any way?
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