Bug#392244: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#392244: xterm: doesn't seem to work with udev

[Michael Biebl]

2006/11/10, Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net>:
> >
> > On Nov 09, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > > You are missing proper /dev/pts/ directory. This is the problem (and
> > > it's related to udev, not xterm).
> > No, it's not. /dev/pts/ is mounted by some init script.
> > But probably the submitter broke his system in some way, if /dev/pts/
> > were really broken we would know...
>
> I tend to disagree. From /etc/init.d/udev:
>
> "# we need to unmount /dev/pts/ and remount it later over the tmpfs"
>
> Then, a function to unmount /dev/pts follows which is called later if
> tmpfs isn't mounted, but there is nothing in that script which mounts
> /dev/pts again. So...

udev is run with priority 3 in rcS and mountdevsubfs.sh with priortiy
4, so it runs afterwards. mountdevsubfs.sh has to take care of
mounting /dev/pts. Check your setup if you have those links int
/etc/rcS.d/

Michael