Hi There! After a lenghtly holiday I am now back to update some of my servers. Please note that an update of udev from 117 to 120 could be dangerous if you cannot access the machine physically. That's what I did: I have an sshd running on a remote machine. And I am logged in to that machine via ssh. Then, I did a prt-get update udev. A kill and restart of the udevd could have been sufficient, but I decided to execute /sbin/start_udev which mounts the /dev tmpfs and copies initial device files to /dev/ Well... everything in /dev looks fine afterwards, but now if I try to login to the machine via ssh, ssh complains with a nasty "Server refused to allocate pty" Even if the proper device nodes are present, the sshd still references to the old ones and therefore cannot allocate new ptys? I also tried to restart sshd without improvement. The above message still denies any logins. So, it seems like the machine really needs a reboot in that case to recover proper udev managed /dev ? Is there any way to update udev safely without the need for a reboot? I recommend to _not_ update udev in that case. Feedback is welcome. Regards, Clemens