Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sa

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 Feb, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 > James Ausmus wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson >> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 >> > Willie Wong wrote: >> > >> > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: >> > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is: > >none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 > > Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of > emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ??? Should this be reported to > b.g.o.?? Odd, t

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson > wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 > > Willie Wong wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > > > Your replies are much appreciated as we're i

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 > Willie Wong wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > > Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about > > > which I'm poorly informed. > > > > > > O

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about > > which I'm poorly informed. > > > > Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about > which I'm poorly informed. > > Output (below) of "rc-status sysinit" indicated devfs stopped, so I > started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted u

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: > > > >r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts > > /dev/ptmx > > > > /dev/pts: > > That's it? There's nothing under /de

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: > The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: > >r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts > /dev/ptmx > > /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals running in X? > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:11:07 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation > > problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no > > problems starting X applications like

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:13:02 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into > > a new kernel? > > Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat > /etc/fstab for me

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread David Relson
H'lo Willie, The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: udev was emerged twice quite recently: 1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2 1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1 My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago. As you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a > new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation > problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems > starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-06 Thread Willie Wong
Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most likely something else broke on your system. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > ssh into box gives: > > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? > ### recently