/dev/ file overload. Some advice please.

[FailedArtifact]

In my /Dev/ folder.



Anyone else have these types of files? there really bugging me and i have another problem to do with my DVD drive not having DMA turn on. (which won't allow being turned on). But shall i delete most of these 'pty'/'tyy' ones? or what?

Thanks

[coroner]

That does seem like alot of psuedo terminal device files, can you actually state what distribution of Linux you are running and what kernel?

uname -a

Do not delete them, besides that's not the right way to fix this problem. To turn DMA on for your DVD drive, first check the BIOS to make sure it is operating at it's maximum mode. Second, use:

hdparm

To switch the DMA on or off or it's UDMA mode.

All in all though, before we make too many assumptions about what is happenning here, we need your distribution version and kernel version.

Run:

hdparm -I -i /dev/sr0

That will print a list of information about the drive, also like I said about assumptions, sr0 is a 2.6.25 thing give or take, post your kernel version and distribution's release version.

[FailedArtifact]

what distribution of Linux you are running and what kernel?

Linux zerone-desktop 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 8.04 Lts

[FailedArtifact]

reason i haven't made this thread directly on the problem of DVD drive because its stop reading, and i need to work out why its not showing.

I just wanted to know firstly why there is so many dupilcated files in Dev for the moment

Thanks for you help Coroner

[coroner]

Run:

dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt

Then post the output of that file here.. 2.6.24 should be using udev, not devfs, and what it looks like is devfs. It's possible Ubuntu still uses devfs by default in the generic kernel releases, but I cannot know for sure unless I check. Post the results.

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dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt

Part 1

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-22-generic (buildd@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-22.45-generic)
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000003fef3000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000] 126MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 261872) 0 entries of 256 used
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->     4096
[    0.000000]   Normal       4096 ->   229376
[    0.000000]   HighMem    229376 ->   261872
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0:        0 ->   261872
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 261872
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 253 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   HighMem zone: 32243 pages, LIFO batch:7
[    0.000000]   Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F7C10 checksum 0
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F7C10, 0014 (r0 RS480 )
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 3FEF3040, 002C (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3FEF30C0, 0074 (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3FEF3180, 3AC5 (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI     1000 MSFT  100000E)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3FEF0000, 0040
[    0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3FEF6D80, 003C (r1 RS480  AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD        0)
[    0.000000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 3ff00000:a0100000)
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[    0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 259827
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=ffc1b926-ae1b-48e8-8b46-3a8b9a9b56fc ro quiet splash
[    0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC!
[    0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
[    0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[    0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Detected 2000.122 MHz processor.
[   31.849967] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[   31.849970] console [tty0] enabled
[   31.850256] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   31.850586] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[   31.870685] Memory: 1026352k/1047488k available (2177k kernel code, 20444k reserved, 1005k data, 368k init, 129984k highmem)
[   31.870692] virtual kernel memory layout:
[   31.870693]     fixmap  : 0xfff4b000 - 0xfffff000   ( 720 kB)
[   31.870694]     pkmap   : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000   (4096 kB)
[   31.870695]     vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000   ( 111 MB)
[   31.870696]     lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000   ( 896 MB)
[   31.870697]       .init : 0xc0421000 - 0xc047d000   ( 368 kB)
[   31.870699]       .data : 0xc0320704 - 0xc041bdc4   (1005 kB)
[   31.870700]       .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0320704   (2177 kB)
[   31.870702] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[   31.870733] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[   31.950608] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4004.43 BogoMIPS (lpj=8008875)
[   31.950631] Security Framework initialized
[   31.950636] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[   31.950649] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[   31.950652] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[   31.950659] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[   31.950755] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[   31.950758] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[   31.950766] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
[   31.950773] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[   31.950775] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[   31.950778] CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00020410 00000001 00000000 00000001 00000000
[   31.950787] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[   31.950796] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[   31.966818] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[   31.967769] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[   31.967865] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[   32.271576] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[   32.271624] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[   32.272573] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c28)
[   32.303570] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ stepping 00
[   32.303577] SMP motherboard not detected.
[   32.409803] Brought up 1 CPUs
[   32.409816] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
[   32.409819]  domain 0: span 01
[   32.409820]   groups: 01
[   32.409958] net_namespace: 64 bytes
[   32.409962] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[   32.410367] Time: 19:46:54  Date: 12/10/08
[   32.410385] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[   32.410531] EISA bus registered
[   32.410561] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[   32.444010] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xfa5e0, last bus=2
[   32.444012] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[   32.444015] Setting up standard PCI resources
[   32.447751] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[   32.450517] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[   32.450519] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[   32.450530] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
[   32.453425] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[   32.454780] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
[   32.454808] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[   32.455014] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
[   32.469554] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[   32.469626] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
[   32.469698] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[   32.469769] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11)
[   32.469838] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11)
[   32.469908] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[   32.469978] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11), disabled.
[   32.470048] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[   32.470127] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[   32.470148] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[   32.470153] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[   32.472247] pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of mem resources: 12
[   32.472288] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[   32.472289] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[   32.472292] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[   32.472450] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[   32.472452] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
[   32.472459] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0
[   32.529575] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[   32.529577] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[   32.529626] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[   32.533539] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[   32.541550] system 00:01: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved
[   32.541552] system 00:01: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
[   32.541555] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
[   32.541557] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
[   32.541560] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
[   32.541562] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
[   32.541564] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved
[   32.541567] system 00:01: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved
[   32.541569] system 00:01: ioport range 0xcd4-0xcdf has been reserved
[   32.541572] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4000-0x40fe has been reserved
[   32.541574] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4210-0x4217 has been reserved
[   32.541580] system 00:06: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[   32.541582] system 00:06: ioport range 0x220-0x225 has been reserved
[   32.541588] system 00:0b: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
[   32.541593] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xd9800-0xdbfff has been reserved
[   32.541596] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
[   32.541598] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
[   32.541601] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[   32.541603] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x3ff00000-0x3fffffff has been reserved
[   32.541606] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x3fef0000-0x3fefffff could not be reserved
[   32.541609] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xffff0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
[   32.541611] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[   32.541614] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x100000-0x3feeffff could not be reserved
[   32.541616] system 00:0c: iomem range 0x0-0x0 could not be reserved
[   32.541619] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
[   32.541622] system 00:0c: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
[   32.571872] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
[   32.571874]   IO window: e000-efff
[   32.571877]   MEM window: f8000000-fbffffff
[   32.571880]   PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
[   32.571883] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
[   32.571886]   IO window: d000-dfff
[   32.571892]   MEM window: fde00000-fdefffff
[   32.571896]   PREFETCH window: fdd00000-fddfffff
[   32.571909] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[   32.571924] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   32.609459] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[   32.609702] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[   32.610333] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[   32.610643] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[   32.610645] TCP reno registered
[   32.621484] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[   33.072538] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[   33.205309] Freeing initrd memory: 7308k freed
[   33.205749] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[   33.205759] audit(1228938415.204:1): initialized
[   33.205870] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[   33.207236] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[   33.207291] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)

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Part 2

[   33.207390] io scheduler noop registered
[   33.207392] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[   33.207394] io scheduler deadline registered
[   33.207406] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[   33.260149] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[   33.260223] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
[   33.260243] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[   33.260264] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0:pcie00]
[   33.260421] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[   33.614388] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[   33.638748] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[   33.638818] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[   33.638959] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   33.639714] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[   33.640269] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[   33.640320] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[   33.640385] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[   33.640387] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[   33.640844] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[   33.651416] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   33.651504] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[   33.651524] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[   33.651544] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[   33.651546] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[   33.651548] cpuidle: using governor menu
[   33.651615] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[   33.651634] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[   33.651657] registered taskstats version 1
[   33.651754]   Magic number: 4:41:799
[   33.651843]   hash matches device ptyr7
[   33.651880] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[   33.651882] EDD information not available.
[   33.652073] Freeing unused kernel memory: 368k freed
[   33.652093] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 801k
[   33.675324] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[   34.845541] fuse init (API version 7.9)
[   34.856739] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[   34.862352] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (-127 C)
[   35.290477] SCSI subsystem initialized
[   35.328098] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[   35.339254] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[   35.339273] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   35.346925] sata_sil 0000:00:11.0: version 2.3
[   35.347083] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
[   35.347086] PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
[   35.347091] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   35.358463] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   35.364035] scsi0 : sata_sil
[   35.380011] scsi1 : sata_sil
[   35.380059] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f080 irq 11
[   35.380063] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02f000 tf 0xfe02f0c0 irq 11
[   35.388088] ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[   35.415935] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[   35.523764] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[   35.543630] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[   35.691394] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   36.002778] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   36.002938] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] disabled and referenced, BIOS bug
[   36.002975] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
[   36.002978] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
[   36.002982] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   36.003055] scsi2 : sata_sil
[   36.003239] scsi3 : sata_sil
[   36.003264] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02e000 tf 0xfe02e080 irq 10
[   36.003268] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xfe02e000 tf 0xfe02e0c0 irq 10
[   36.469884] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   36.478447] ata3.00: ATA-7: WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0, 02.01C03, max UDMA/133
[   36.478450] ata3.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 
[   36.486437] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   36.797225] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   36.797314] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD2500KS-00M 02.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   36.799419] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
[   36.799422] PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
[   36.799427] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[   36.799439] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
[   36.799630] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[   36.799647] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02d000
[   36.806489] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   36.806557] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[   36.806566] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   36.806569] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   36.806580] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   36.806615] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors (250059 MB)
[   36.806622] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   36.806624] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   36.806634] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   36.806638]  sda: sda1
[   36.812008] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   36.817353] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   36.857188] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   36.857211] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   36.857220] hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[   36.960985] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[   36.960999] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
[   36.961018] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[   36.961032] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02c000
[   37.020849] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   37.020869] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   37.020877] hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[   37.124860] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[   37.124873] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
[   37.124894] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[   37.124944] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 5, io mem 0xfe02b000
[   37.264305] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[   37.276279] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[   37.276366] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   37.276385] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   37.276389] hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[   37.380350] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[   37.381485] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc00, 00:50:fc:e8:54:b2, IRQ 5
[   37.381487] eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[   37.381631] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 3

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Part 3

[   37.381633] PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
[   37.381637] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
[   37.382751] eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xda00, 00:01:2e:0b:85:6b, IRQ 3
[   37.382753] eth1:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[   37.384187] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
[   37.384189] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   37.384194] 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
[   37.384198] 0000:02:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at f883c000.
[   37.406212] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   37.406257] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.1 disabled
[   37.409802] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[   37.412856] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   37.413917] scsi4 : pata_atiixp
[   37.420018] scsi5 : pata_atiixp
[   37.420628] ata5: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf300 irq 14
[   37.420631] ata6: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf308 irq 15
[   37.592425] ata5.00: ATA-6: ST320410A, 3.34, max UDMA/100
[   37.592429] ata5.00: 39102336 sectors, multi 16: LBA 
[   37.592567] ata5.01: ATA-6: SAMSUNG SV2042H, PK100-11, max UDMA/100
[   37.592570] ata5.01: 39865392 sectors, multi 16: LBA 
[   37.608340] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
[   37.616236] ata5.01: configured for UDMA/100
[   38.282845] ata6.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B, 0L23, max UDMA/33
[   38.282863] ata6.01: ATAPI: SONY    CD-RW  CRX230EE, 2YS3, max UDMA/33
[   38.282873] ata6.00: simplex DMA is claimed by other device, disabling DMA
[   38.282875] ata6.01: simplex DMA is claimed by other device, disabling DMA
[   38.454484] ata6.00: configured for PIO4
[   38.642119] ata6.01: configured for PIO4
[   38.642201] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST320410A        3.34 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.642462] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 39102336 512-byte hardware sectors (20020 MB)
[   38.642471] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   38.642473] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.642485] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.642520] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 39102336 512-byte hardware sectors (20020 MB)
[   38.642527] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   38.642529] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.642540] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.642543]  sdb:<6>usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[   38.669096]  sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 >
[   38.693203] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[   38.693228] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[   38.693726] scsi 4:0:1:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG SV2042H  PK10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.693927] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] 39865392 512-byte hardware sectors (20411 MB)
[   38.693935] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[   38.693937] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.693948] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.693974] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] 39865392 512-byte hardware sectors (20411 MB)
[   38.693981] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[   38.693983] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   38.693994] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   38.693997]  sdc: sdc1
[   38.701028] sd 4:0:1:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[   38.701049] sd 4:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[   38.709150] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B 0L23 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.709196] scsi 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
[   38.710268] scsi 5:0:1:0: CD-ROM            SONY     CD-RW  CRX230EE  2YS3 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   38.710313] scsi 5:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5
[   38.715514] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[   38.715518] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[   38.742115] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   38.756899] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   38.756903] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   38.756946] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[   38.764486] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   38.764528] sr 5:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[   38.779474] usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
[   39.016886] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[   39.160210] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   39.396143] usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[   39.530460] usb 3-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   39.531680] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[   39.535641] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[   39.616762] Attempting manual resume
[   39.616765] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:21
[   39.616767] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[   39.616981] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[   39.648886] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   39.648898] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   39.831293] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[   40.044308] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   40.346287] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[   40.553607] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   40.555666] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   40.555715] usb-storage: device found at 4
[   40.555716] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   40.555733] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   40.555781] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   40.555784] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[   40.555907] usb-storage: device found at 6
[   40.555908] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   45.544316] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   45.544434] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   45.544816] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[   45.546043] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 3987456 512-byte hardware sectors (2042 MB)
[   45.546676] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[   45.546679] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[   45.546681] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.546930] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Apple    iPod             1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   45.549161] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 3987456 512-byte hardware sectors (2042 MB)
[   45.549791] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[   45.549793] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[   45.549795] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.549797]  sdd: sdd1
[   45.550577] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   45.550605] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[   45.552404] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 1982464 2048-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB)
[   45.553406] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[   45.553408] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[   45.553410] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.555773] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] 1982464 2048-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB)
[   45.556778] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[   45.556780] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[   45.556782] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   45.556784]  sde: sde1 sde2
[   45.559667] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   45.559687] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[   54.600298] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
[   56.311021] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
[   56.510790] Linux agpgart interface v0.102
[   56.647471] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[   56.647538] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[   56.722348] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   56.752593] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[   56.961943] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input3
[   56.989819] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[   56.989869] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input4
[   57.021753] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   57.026704] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
[   57.762363] udev: renamed network interface eth2 to eth0
[   57.772937] eth0:  setting half-duplex.
[   57.789431] udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth2
[   57.816813] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
[   57.971626] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   58.438111] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
[   58.438116] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[b] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   58.640116] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[   58.643703] input: USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input5
[   58.674546] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.1-1
[   58.674561] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   58.674565] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[   58.721234] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
[   58.721239] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[   58.721246] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
[   58.721451] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  169.12  Thu Feb 14 17:53:07 PST 2008
[   58.908759] input: Wacom Bamboo as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input6
[   58.944791] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[   58.944797] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c: v1.47:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
[   59.048050] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   59.048252] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[   59.048968] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   60.714101] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[   60.771581] Adding 859436k swap on /dev/sdb5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:859436k
[   61.324760] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
[   63.546386] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   63.849809] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
[   64.655720] No dock devices found.
[   65.051588] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ processors (1 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[   65.051609] ACPI Exception (processor_perflib-0234): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PSS [20070126]
[   65.062585] powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
[   65.085307] ACPI Exception (processor_perflib-0234): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PSS [20070126]

[Prometheum]

Oh my god, you're either an idiot or extremely ill informed. NEVER delete anything in /dev/. EVER. Never delete anything outside of $HOME, unless you are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CERTAIN you are not screwing anything up.

Try

man hier

for some information on the UNIX filesystem hierarchy.

[coroner]

Next time you post large file output, just use

tags also, it shrinks the text slightly and will not cost three posts.

I see nothing in there showing a reason for the excessive creation of pty device files. What I suggest is, as a test.. since you are using udev and not devfs as far as the kernel is concerned.. run as root:

rm -rf /dev/* ; reboot

Now, what Pr0 said is right, never delete device files in /dev/ unless you have a good reason, in this case if your kernel really is using udev, it will recreate every device file required for anything you have or are running as a service, like secure shell for example.

If you feel like you should backup your /dev/ directory, by all means do so.. but in this case you should have only what you need when you reboot back into the system. Post the output of:

ls /dev/

after you reboot, see what it looks like there..
Ubuntu for some reason may also have it set up in udev rules to create all those devices, why.. I'm not really sure, when on-demand device file creation has been around for a long time now. If we see there is no change after removing every file in /dev/ and rebooting, we can assume there are some funky udev rules set up and can find them using a little scripting from the shell.