kpackagekit problem

[John Pierce]

Okay, if I do ls /dev I see a directory named pts.

If I try sudo mount /dev/pts it says it cannot find an entry in fstab.

I did dmesg | grep pts and did not find anything in the dmesg log.

I did less /var/log/messages and found nothing to do with pts or pty.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello list members!
>>
>> Each time I try to add or remove programs with kpackagekit I get the
>> following errors:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last): File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/daemonBackend.py", line
>> 109, in run threading.Thread.run(self) File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
>> self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File
>> "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 168, in wrapper
>> func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py",
>> line 1231, in doInstallPackages if not self._commit_changes(): return
>> False File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 1704, in
>> _commit_changes PackageKitInstallProgress(self, install_range)) File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 277, in commit
>> res = self.installArchives(pm, installProgress) File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 252, in
>> installArchives res = installProgress.run(pm) File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/progress.py", line 278, in run
>> pid = self.fork() File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line
>> 429, in fork (pid, self.master_fd) = pty.fork() File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/pty.py", line 107, in fork master_fd, slave_fd =
>> openpty() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/pty.py", line 29, in openpty
>> master_fd, slave_name = _open_terminal() File
>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/pty.py", line 70, in _open_terminal raise
>> os.error, 'out of pty devices' OSError: out of pty devices
>>
>> This is an upgraded system from 8.04 to 9.04.
>>
>> Also, if I use apt-get install it works, but I get an error stating
>> that "cannot write log (/dev/pts not mounted" or something like that.
>>
>
> Check if /dev/pts is mounted also check dmesg and your logs for
> messages with pts or pty.
>
> / Jonas
>
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