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Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install [message #10786 is a reply to message #10779]

Thu, 01 March 2007 07:40

Vasily Tarasov
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Registered: January 2006

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Thanks for the answers!

Quote:

Is it normal to have an apparently well formed private/<brokenvpsid>/dev content while the running instance shows the broken content?
When I say well formed I mean identical to one of the 'sane' vps.
And ptmx is there too.

You mistakenly consider /dev content after udev installation broken. Look at usual hardware node: after installation of udev a lot of device nodes are removed from /dev, but it isn't broken. It just works in other way: only existent devices are observed in /dev. The same situation is in VE.

Quote:

BTW why you think is a different problem of the one faced on CentOS in http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=tree&goto=4955&# msg_4955

It is the same problem: some device nodes are missing (the most important for us at the moment (it is necessary to enter VE) is /dev/ptmx). For rpm-based distributions we have a vzdev rpm as a good workaround. But you have Debian in VE, so there is no vzdev for you, and we need to find another solution. I repeat, that the strange thing is is that for my VE and sspt's VE /dev/ptmx is in place even with installed udev! So we need to find out why there is no ptmx in your VE. Various factors can affect:

1) kernel configuration (we've already checked that)
2) VE template/configuration (we've already checked that)
3) udev version (we've already checked that)
4) udev configuration (not checked now)
5) some other things (not checked now Smile

)

The next questions are:

Can you provide me an access to your node?
Can you gzip problematic VE and put it on ftp/http, so I'll be able to download VE and test it locally?

Also, please, try to do the following before VE start:

# vzctl set <veid> --features sysfs:on --save

Then start VE and enter it. Does it work now?

Thanks,
Vasily.

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		SOLVED /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Mon, 26 February 2007 18:12
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 27 February 2007 08:28
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Tue, 27 February 2007 09:00
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 27 February 2007 09:19
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: sspt on Tue, 27 February 2007 11:24
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Tue, 27 February 2007 17:46
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Wed, 28 February 2007 11:53
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Wed, 28 February 2007 19:27
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Thu, 01 March 2007 07:40
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Fri, 02 March 2007 17:27
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Mon, 05 March 2007 14:34
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Tue, 06 March 2007 07:10
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 06 March 2007 08:39
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Tue, 06 March 2007 14:11
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 06 March 2007 17:01
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Tue, 06 March 2007 17:02
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: tibia on Thu, 08 March 2007 15:51
		Re: /dev destroyed upon gnome install By: Vasily Tarasov on Mon, 05 March 2007 15:24

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