Server refused to allocate pty - solved (sort of)

[Dennis Veatch]

On Monday 14 February 2005 04:08 pm, Jaime Buffery wrote:
> Hello, Dennis
>
> > Me me me me :)
> >
> > The box is all scsi except for a ide CD/DVD burner.
> >
> > My layout is :
> >
> > /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
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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?
>
> These are the steps you would have to take:
>
> * cd /etc/udev/script.d/
> * wget http://lunar-linux.org/~nestu/scsi-devfs.sh.patch
> * cat scsi-devfs.sh.patch | patch -p1
>
> Reboot at tell me what happens.
>
> 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.
>
> As soon as someone gives me the thumbs up, this patch is going into
> moonbase.
>
> TIA,
> Jaime :)
>

You da man.

It worked perfectly.

And yes, I deleted readlink from my ugly little hack to get booted.