From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030576AbXDXL6M (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:58:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030760AbXDXL6M (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:58:12 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:34693 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030576AbXDXL6K convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:58:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:58:01 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "J.A. =?ISO-8859-1?B?TWFnYWxs824i?= "@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 Message-Id: <20070424045801.607b30d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070424101041.2fb2d9e0@werewolf-wl> References: <20070408143559.f5014629.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070424101041.2fb2d9e0@werewolf-wl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:10:41 +0200 "J.A. Magallón" wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc6/2.6.21-rc6-mm1/ > > > > > > - Lots of x86 updates > > > > Has somthing related with PTY's changed in this kernel ? Not as far as I know, but there were some kobject_uevent changes which might have caused udev upcalls to break. Perhaps. > I have to enable legacy PTY handling in a couple boxes to get ssh working. > If not, I had openpty() errors and nor sshd nor virtual terminals (aterm) were > able to get a terminal. I have CONFIG_PM_LEGACY unset in at least one of my test configs and it works OK here. > User space (udev) is the same in three boxes and one works and two fail. > I had /dev/ptmx everywhere and /dev/pts mounted > > Any idea ? Nope. Can you please check 2.6.21-rc7-mm1, see if that fixed it? If so, it might have been the kobject_uevent thing.