The following reply was made to PR kern/32682; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:17:58 -0500

 On Feb 22,  4:47pm, hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de (Hauke Fath) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/32682: netbsd-3 ptyfs intermittent failure with Matlab
 
 | Doesn't look that easy.
 | 
 | I just encountered the bug on an idle machine that I had logged into 
 | remotely, i.e. no KDE stuff running (the login prompter is gdm, and 
 | there were a few leftover dbus-daemon-1 processes).
 | 
 | Matlab 14 aborted, and a ktrace showed me it wanted /dev/pts/1 but 
 | didn't get it. The fstat /dev/{t,p}typ1 came up _empty_.
 | 
 | I opened another remote xterm, became root to install the lsof 
 | package. The second login did successfully create /dev/pts/1. After 
 | that, Matlab would start up just fine, and create a /dev/pts/2, but 
 | owned root:wheel unlike 0 and 1 which were owned by my id, group tty.
 | 
 | Any ideas about where to go from here?
 
 Can you ktrace the pty transactions on a successful matlab pty creation?
 
 christos