Server refused to start a shell/command (Buildroot - RPi)

[Kevin Hill]

Well, I think that is my problem. /dev/pts did not exist.
I didn't start from a default buildroot system, but one that was 
already cutdown for NOOBS, and probably one that did not need any PTYs.
So I guess my next question is which options in buildroot do I need to 
enable in order to support PTYs?

Is it sufficient to do 'mknod -m 0666 /dev/ptmx c 5 2' ?

I have also discovered there may be some information to be gleaned from 
/proc/sys/kernal/pty/max and /proc/sys.kernel/pty/nr, so I will look at 
those too.

Cheers,
Kevin


On 2015-01-14 16:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Johnston <matt at ucc.asn.au> writes:
>
>  > Thinking a bit further, try doing:
>  > mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
>
>  > That special filesystem probably needs to be mounted for openpty 
> to
>  > work. I’m not sure how that works with buildroot by default.
>
> /dev/pts gets mkdir'ed and mounted by default in Buildroot since 
> atleast
> 2010, so unless Kevin has tweaked anything it should be fine.