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Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1
- From: elaine <elaine AT fwsystems.com>
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- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:59:41 -0500
devfs has been obsoleted in 2.6, and while it's still there it no longer
provides PTY's so you need to both include /dev/pts file system in the
kernel and
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
in /etc/fstab
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:47:39 -0600 (unchecked - local sync NTPstrat4)
David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> did inscribe thusly:
> I've installed 2.6.1 on a couple of my computers and the programs on it
> cannot
> allocate a pty. sshd does work, but it doesn't get very far thanks to the
> pty
> problem. Terminals in gnome/kde do the same thing (obviously)
>
> I haven't submitted a bug, because I'm not sure where it would go. I think
> it's
> a very general thing, perhaps even a configuration error. I have Unix PTY
> support compiled into the kernel and /dev/pty exists. Really funkie...
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[SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1,
David Kowis, 01/13/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1, Hamish Greig, 01/13/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1,
elaine, 01/13/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1,
David Kowis, 01/14/2004
- Re: [smgl] Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1, Treeve Jelbert, 01/14/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1, Arwed von Merkatz, 01/14/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] cannot allocate pty problem with 2.6.1,
David Kowis, 01/14/2004
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