[lug] devpts

[Charles Morrison]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had the same thing happen.  I had put devpts in the kernel and later
> removed it.  It is under "character devices".  Delete the entry for it
> from /etc/fstab and you will no longer get the error message.
> 

Yes, that would get rid of the messages, but would that clean up the umount
problem too? Could it be refusing to umount / because it can't umount a
nonexistant devpts filesystem? I really hate trashing my / partition :-(

> Charles Morrison wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > I've had some problems that stem from compiling a kernel (2.2.10) and not
> > getting devpts included. I've searched throughout the kernel and haven't found
> > this as an option, but when I compile and then boot from the new kernel, I get
> > error messages on bootup that it has no support for filesystem devpts when
> > mounting my disk's  partitions.
> > 
> > While it appears to boot normally other than those messages, when I shutdown
> > the box, it is unable to unmount / and upon rebooting (with the original
> > mandrake kernel) it requires that I repair the partition. I have lost data in
> > the process.
> > 
> > could anyone enlighten me on how to get this compiled in? I usually use "make
> > menuconfig'" when I set up the compile options.

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Chuck Morrison
Sr. Systems Engineer
VA Linux Inc.