Comment 5 for bug 980917
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| James Hunt (jamesodhunt) wrote Re: Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job | #5 |
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@Adam: the point here is that Upstart is signalling an error, albeit a soft one. However, in all cases it will be a transitory error since at some point in the boot /dev/pts _will_ be mounted.
For i386/amd64 Ubuntu images, Ubuntu currently uses an initramfs which is responsible for setting up /dev/pts. In the case of ARM where you have no initramfs, /dev/pts will not be mounted when Upstart starts. Currently the problem will 'correct itself' once mountall has finished since it will mount /dev/pts if not already mounted. So, currently if you have no initramfs you will get one message / job that Upstart started before /dev/pts is available.
The full solution to this problem involves a bit of redesign since the mountall model doesn't work well if you have no initramfs -- unless you disable job logging. A pragmatic fix would be to have Upstart mount /dev and /dev/pts itself and if that fails continue to display the message with the addition of the job name so it is clear which jobs will not have their output logged.