Server refused to allocate pty - solved (sort of)

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Jaime Buffery wrote:

>Hello, Dennis
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>>Me me me me :) 
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>>The box is all scsi except for a ide CD/DVD burner. 
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>>My layout is :
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>>/dev/sde1       /home   reiserfs defaults,notail,noatime 0 0
>>/dev/sdd1       /mnt/storage reiserfs defaults,notail,noatime,users 0 0
>>/dev/sdc1       /var reiserfs defaults,notail,noatime 0 0
>>/dev/sdb1       /opt reiserfs defaults,notail,noatime 0 0
>>/dev/sda4       /usr reiserfs defaults,notail,noatime 0 0
>>/dev/sda2       none    swap    defaults 0 0
>>/dev/sda1       /boot   ext2    defaults,noatime 0 0
>>/dev/sda3       / reiserfs defaults,notail,noatime 0 0
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>>As a temporary fix just to get this thing up. I booted from rescue, created 
>>a /mnt/root/usr/bin and copied "readlink" from the resuce to there. So it 
>>boots now and everybody gets mounted which is what was not happening before. 
>>Not a pretty fix but well.
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>Okay, so I've got a fix for the scsi script that I need tested. And let's face 
>it you are the only I know that can... would you mind?
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>These are the steps you would have to take:
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>* cd /etc/udev/script.d/
>* wget http://lunar-linux.org/~nestu/scsi-devfs.sh.patch
>* cat scsi-devfs.sh.patch | patch -p1
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>Reboot at tell me what happens. 
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>If you read the patch you will see that is changes any reference to readlink for 
>a stupid little func that should do the job, I hope. Obviously, I have tested 
>the func in a dummy scipt I created for the purpose on my box, and it behaves 
>exactly like readlink.
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>As soon as someone gives me the thumbs up, this patch is going into moonbase.
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Why not modify the coreutils module to install readlink to /bin?