gnome-terminal kept crashing on me. openrc and not running hald in the initscripts either. Traced to /dev/pts problem or at least adding: devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults,rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 to /etc/fstab fixed the issue even though it's a hack. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" 2.emerge openrc (also -uvNDp world) 3. etc-update/dispatch.conf 3.rm /etc/runlevels/sysinit/devfs 4. reboot Actual Results: mount shows no devpts and gnome-terminal will not open Gnome is 2.30.2 atm
udev isn't supposed to create those: openrc is supposed to simply mount /dev/pts. That's what the /etc/runlevels/sysinit/devfs file that you removed is for.
If devfs is required for a proper system then it should be noted in one or both of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml Please correct your docs and consider doing so before closing.
Re-opened
The documentation is correct, you don't need to include devfs in your kernel, but the devfs file from openrc does not mount devfs on /dev, and nowhere does the documentation say to remove that file. You can say that the file is poorly named, but that is all.
*** Bug 329201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
