Re: what is ptyfsoldnodes?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 01:16:41PM -0600, Ted Spradley wrote:
> ls: /dev/*typ*: No such file or directory

Indeed, all should be good.

What the check exactly looks for is:

	cd /dev/
	sh MAKEDEV -s pty0

and it will print a list like:

./ttyp0 type=char device=netbsd,5,0 mode=666 gid=0 uid=0
./ptyp0 type=char device=netbsd,6,0 mode=666 gid=0 uid=0
./ttyp1 type=char device=netbsd,5,1 mode=666 gid=0 uid=0
./ptyp1 type=char device=netbsd,6,1 mode=666 gid=0 uid=0
./ttyp2 type=char device=netbsd,5,2 mode=666 gid=0 uid=0
./ptyp2 type=char device=netbsd,6,2 mode=666 gid=0 uid=0


During your update these must have existed, but maybe something confused
the installer /dev with the target /dev - which is slightly strange as it
should show up more often.

From what medium/image did you boot to do the update?

Martin