Re: [SSI-devel] Problem with /dev/pts

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@hp...>]

Andreas Roos wrote:

> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>
>> Andreas wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I am using Fedora C2 now and it works much better the Debian. Using 
>>> the precompiled kernel I have no problems, but if I compile my own one
>>
>>
>>
>> What was the difficulty with Debian ? Was it  the lack of kernel 
>> package ?. If yes i can work towards a kernel package for debian. I 
>> always believed that having the flexibility to build the package is 
>> much better than going for a  kernel package because once we know how 
>> to build we could get it working for any hardware combination. 
>
>
>
> The problem with debian was that the installation and configuration of 
> openSSI ist much more complex. I needed to edit the ramdisk because 
> there where several
> problems with using mkinitrd. For example the type of the root 
> filesystem ist not set in the config-file. Another reason is that I 
> was not able to make drbd running on debian and I hope it works better 
> under fedora. 


This is fixed in the new initrd-tools. I have completely re-written this 
now. Now it follows base  debian package more closely.


> The loadbalancing for the virtual IP-Adress doesn't work either. And I 
> think that there are still some errors in the startup-scripts. So is 
> for example ha-lvs not started on any other node that the initnode.


I wrote ha-lvs under debian so there is better chance of it working 
under debian that redhat :).


> Another problem was that I was not able to compile the kernel-sources 
> under Debian. There I get an compile error. Using the same sources I 
> don't get the error under fedora. (I have posted the error under 
> Problems with shared memory segements) I think too that it is not 
> necessary to always have a precompiled package. But the problem was 
> that I was not able to compile it under Debian and in order to make 
> shared memory running I need to.
>

hmm . I guess i should start looking at a kernel package for debian. Let 
me see if i can get something by this weekend.


>>
>>
>>> (using CVS RH-1-0-STABLE) I get a problem with /dev/pts if I boot.
>>> system is not able to mount the devpts. (/dev/pts is a symbolic link 
>>> to nowhere)Without it it is not possibe to run a telnet server. My 
>>> entry in fstab is
>>>
>>> none    /dev/pts    devpts    gid=5,mode=620,node=1    0    0
>>>
>>
>> /dev/pts should be a symlink to /cluster/dev/pts . This symlink is 
>> created in the kernel.  Now i doubt whether we updated the tag in 
>> CVS. Can you checkout the code with OPENSSI-RH-1-0-STABLE 
>
>
>
> When I boot the precompiled kernel /cluster/1/dev/pts is there, but if 
> I boot the own compiled kernel it isn't. I down't know what the 
> problem could be.  I have used OPENSSI-RH-1-0-STABLE and I get that 
> problem with that kernel. The base kernel I have used I got from


Can you see if CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS is defined . The code in question 
comes at drivers/char/pty.c:452

-aneesh