On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:15:22PM +0900, Glenn Shannon wrote: > I have just seen another effect of running 2.4.4 (on my system only???) > > Apparently the DevFS in this kernel is buggy.... > > I just tried to open an xterm...apparently I have no ptys available > (what?????????) > > Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'm not using DevFS, and I've had suing from root to someone else fail for reasons that also seem to involve ptys. Also, using the loop device crashed every program that tried to access files on the mounted filesystem caused evil looking kernel messages about dereferencing NULL pointers and made everything unstable until I rebooted. I think it's back to 2.4.3 for me. :-( Have fun (if at all possible), -- The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton -- Eric Hopper (hopper omnifarious org http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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