ssh to a FC5 test1 system fails, fails to create pts device nodes with 2.6.14-1.1783

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 16:52 +0530, Kevin Verma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I updated the kernel to kernel-2.6.14-1.1783_FC5 on a FC5 test1
> machine, and after reboot I could not log on to it via ssh, the error
> message in log files were as following:
> (hand typed)
> 
> tailf -f /var/log/secure
> sshd (pid): Accepted public key for root from 192.168.0.3
> sshd (pid): pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
> sshd (pid): error: openpty: no such file or directory
> sshd (pid): session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed
> 
> Looking into /dev/pts/ , there are zero files.

this most likely is an initscripts issue; /dev/pts needs to be mounted..
and from the sound of what you have... it's not.