Dear all
This isn't really a problem - everything works, but, rather, a VERY
strange (as it appears to me) behaviour. I looked through lkml's archives,
asked several news-groups - no success. So, here goes:
I am observing this behaviour on 2 VERY different machines, but I'll
describe one of them to make it easier. Maybe it's a known feature, so,
you'll tell me straight away. Shortly - when opening new remote sessions
some pts's don't get allocated, although they are not currently in use by
any login (`who`), and corresponding /dev/pts/x don't exist. Already know
what it is? If not - I'll give a bit more detail. This machine is running
2.2.18 (another one 2.4.2). It doesn't have X installed on it (only couple
X-clients, including rxvt - an xterm clone. So, - it went like this:
1) open rxvt, pts/2 appears, `who` has extra line (I didn't check, but I
assume)
2) rxvt crashes, pts/2 disappears, line in who stays, pts/2 locked
3) I re-initialize /var/run/utmp, line in who goes, pts/2 still locked
(present state)
On another occasion pts/4 got locked in exactly the same way, but before
I re-initialized utmp, one of terminals got associated with pts/4 (then
who produced 2 lines with pts/4!), and, when I closed that other session
with pts/4 both lines from who disappeared and pts/4 got unlocked! VERY
weird, to say the least:-)
On another machine pts's get locked also when ssh sessions get cut.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski@sheffield.ac.uk
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