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Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0



Whenever I log on to my IP I get an error message about /dev/pts in
/var/log/messages:

Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No
such file or directory
Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf kernel: registered device ppp0
Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: pppd 2.3.10 started by gsmh, uid 1000
Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1

Has anyone any idea what is wrong? I checked with DejaNews and can find
messages to show that it has something to do with the kernel itself. If
I do 'locate devpts' on my system, I get:

/etc/default/devpts
/etc/init.d/devpts.sh
/etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/devpts
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/devpts/.depend
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/devpts/devpts_i.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/devpts/inode.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/devpts/Makefile
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/fs/devpts/root.c
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/config/devpts
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/config/devpts/fs.h
/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include/linux/devpts_fs.h

Not sure if this is any help . . . I am using the latest unstable, BTW

Cheers.


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Phillip Deackes
Debian Linux 


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