From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262047AbTDUUol (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:44:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262024AbTDUUol (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:44:41 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:23767 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261962AbTDUUog (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:44:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:56:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin X-X-Sender: proski@marabou.research.att.com To: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz cc: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68-bk1 crash in devfs_remove() for defpts files In-Reply-To: <1050957875.1224.2.camel@flat41> Message-ID: References: <20030421195555.A28583@lst.de> <20030421195847.A28684@lst.de> <20030421210020.A29421@lst.de> <20030421215637.A30019@lst.de> <1050957875.1224.2.camel@flat41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote: > you must mount devpts in /dev/pts It is mounted, in case if you missed the beginning of the discussion. > and change inittab : > [snip] > # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System, > # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run > X. > # > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/vc/1 But I don't have /dev/vc/1 because ... > > The only entry under /dev/vc is /dev/vc/0. /dev/tts is missing. This was caused by Christoph's patch he posted in this thread. I'm not familiar with internals of devfs and character devices. I'm just trying to help Christoph to come to the right solution. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin