>Number:         37433
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       openpty() failed in a netboot install: sysinst unusable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-sparc-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 25 20:55:00 +0000 2007
>Originator:     Pavel Cahyna
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0_RC4
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD sun.martani.repy.net 4.0_RC4 NetBSD 4.0_RC4
Architecture: sparc
Machine: sparc
>Description:
I have tried the network install as described in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1/sparc/INSTALL.html#Installing%20NetBSD%20by%20using%20a%20netboot%20setup
(booting the GENERIC kernel over NFS with a root on nfs created from
installation/netboot/rootfs.tgz)
All went well until sysinst tried to execute the first program with
output redirected to a window (it was disklabel). It printed
"Status: openpty() failed" and installation was aborted.
Same thing happens with 3.1 release.
>How-To-Repeat:
see above.
>Fix:
unknown - missing device nodes in the installation filesystem?
using the traditional commandline method, one can install the system
successfully.