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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] linux-2.6.0-test
  • Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:20:53 +0200

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:59:01AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting "Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>:
> > it didn't mess up my 2.4 install, though i think in 2.4 tmpfs and shm
> > probably work differently. in 2.6 i also had to mount /dev/pts or
> > gnome-terminal wouldn't work, i doubt that that would work in 2.4,
> > haven't
> > tested it yet.
> >
> > Jeremy
>
> gnome-terminal worked fine here without that modification. Are you running
> devfsd? I am, if you are as well, I'm not sure why it worked for me, but
> not
> for you, and if not, that may fix it, though you already have it fixed. :)
>
> -sandalle

It's not devfsd that's needed, but devfs. /dev/pts/* can either be
provided by devpts, or by devfs. So if you're running static /dev you
need to mount devpts on /dev/pts, with devfs that's included.

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