Re: cannot start xterm on NetBSD-4.0

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

 >>   0 ~>xterm
 >>   xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
 >>   Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
 >>   32 ~>
 >> 
 >> and there is no /dev/pts directory on my system

> # echo '/dev/pts /dev/pts ptyfs rw,auto,hidden' >> /etc/fstab
> # mkdir -m 0755 /dev/pts
> # mount /dev/pts

I still have a problem.

- On my system /dev is mount_mfs'ed at boot time
- After mounting /dev and creating files in it there are
  no /dev/pts directory and therefore mount /dev/pts fails
- Also there are no /dev/ptm{,x} files which I guess are also necessary
- After manual running the following commands
      cd /dev
      ./MAKEDEV ptm
      mkdir pts
      mount pts
  xterm seems to work but says
    utmp_update: Cannot update utmp entry: Resource temporarily unavailable
    utmp_update: Cannot update utmp entry: Undefined error: 0

  Why /dev/pts directory is not created automatically at boot time?
  /dev/ptm is also not created by 'MAKEDEV init' but by 'MAKEDEV all'.

  ulimit:

    time(cpu-seconds)    unlimited
    file(blocks)         unlimited
    coredump(blocks)     unlimited
    data(kbytes)         716800
    stack(kbytes)        2048
    lockedmem(kbytes)    510734
    memory(kbytes)       1532204
    nofiles(descriptors) 1048
    processes            384
    sbsize(bytes)        unlimited

I'm trying to restore my NetBSD box after hardware failure.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.