actually, your devpts is *not* mounted. What you have in /etc/mtab is
/dev
but no
/dev/pts

In the messages it says that the mount point does not exist. Does the directory /dev/pts exist after you are done booting?

If it does, you can try mounting the devpts later in the sequence. You can do this by editing the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Just add the line
mount -t devpts none /dev/pts

to the end of that file. You can also add other things to the file if there are things you want to run each time you boot.

I don't think you need unix pty support. I don't have it and it seems fine. But you could try activating it. It's under character devices.

actually, do enable legacy pty support. It seems needed with the 2.6 kernels using devfs.

Ok folks, back in Wales now after a great holiday meeting the in-laws over
in Ireland; God the weather was rough there, but I still enjoyed it.

So I'm now going to compile with Legacy PTY and going to add
mount -t devpts none /dev/pts

into my /etc/rc.d/rc.local and then I'll report back to you.

Martin.

It works!!!!!!!!!!!

It's all sorted, fixed, mended, not broken.

I'm so happy. I had to compile in support for Unix98 TTY first though and then it worked fine.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped. Hopefully in the not too distant future I will be able to help others on these forums as my Linux knowledge grows, and it certainly has with this problem.

Thanks quatsch.

glad it worked!