Re: open fifo xxx: No such device or address

Thanks for your help!
Since the whole root is over NFS, it is not possible that the FS is mounted
as nodev, otherwise the device files inside /dev wouldn't work.
But I created a mount point to hold screen fifos, and it worked flawlessly.
It never occurred to me to try that, it was the simplest possible solution
knowing the problem must had been in the change to NFS.


Regards


2013/5/13 James Cloos <cloos-GRsvFm/Gh/[email protected]>

> >>>>> "AM" == Alvaro Martínez <[email protected]> writes:
>
> AM> Every time I try to start screen, I receive the error
> AM> "open fifo /home/alvaro/.screen/698.pts-1.slackberry: No such device or
> AM> address"
>
> What does:
>
>     :; mount | grep ' / '
>
> report?
>
> It is possible that it is mounted with something like nodev.
>
> Does the /home/alvaro/.screen directory exist?
>
> To avoid the issue entirely, you could mount a tmpfs or ramfs at
> ${HOME}/.screen to keep the fifo local.  As a side benefit you won't
> have any stale fifos to clean up after any crashes. :-/
>
> Or specify a different home for screen files, under a local filesystem.
>
> -JimC
> --
> James Cloos <cloos-GRsvFm/Gh/[email protected]>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
>

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