[SM-Users] pty and pseudo-tty

Bob LeBlanc ml at maineham.us
Tue Jul 24 11:54:44 EDT 2007


Thanks Ruskie,

/dev/pts was not mounted.
I put it in my fstab and mounted it and it works..
Thanks again.

BoB


Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> On 17:31:48 2007-07-24 Bob LeBlanc <ml at maineham.us> wrote:
>> Hi eveyone,
>>
>> I am having a problem with pty and pseudo-tty after I bring up FVWM.
>> At this time I am running the same configuration file on 4 other SMGL 
>> boxes, one laptop and a slackware box and it works on all of them.
>> FVWM is already loaded when I get this error.
>>
>> If anyone has had this problem or knows how to fix this please let me
>> know.
>>
>> BTW the man page for pty did not help me in solving this.
>>
>> error msg:
>>
>> ----
>> aterm: can't open pseudo-tty
>> aterm: aborting
>> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
>> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
>> ----
>>
> Is /dev/pts mounted or filled?
> Try running it with strace to see what file it's trying to open.
> 
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