Comment 18 for bug 936667

Booting Linux 3.3.0-rc5 (vanilla, no initramfs) with upstart-1.4-0ubuntu9 (from James' upstart-job-logging PPA) went fine, even w/o the "--no-log" kernel option. However, at the end of the booting process, syslog says:

 kernel: [ 17.913723] init: No available ptys
 kernel: [ 17.913826] init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging
 kernel: [ 17.915596] init: Temporary process spawn error: No such file or directory
 kernel: [ 17.929426] init: No available ptys
 kernel: [ 17.929531] init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging
 kernel: [ 17.931403] init: Temporary process spawn error: No such file or directory
 kernel: [ 17.939599] init: No available ptys
 kernel: [ 17.939687] init: Failed to create pty - disabling logging
 kernel: [ 17.947603] init: Temporary process spawn error: No such file or directory
 kernel: [ 17.976511] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (605) terminated with status 1

The "Failed to create pty - disabling logging" message is also printed on the local console and repeated every now and then. Maybe this (debugging?) information can be omitted in the final version?

$ ls -l /dev/ptmx
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Mar 7 01:34 /dev/ptmx