Re: pts/pty problem since 2.6.8-rc2

[Meelis Roos]

SS> Whenever I boot a kernel of the 2.6.8-* series (also -rc3) I cannot open
SS> up any xterms in X. I first have to lsof /dev/pts and kill all the 1-5
SS> processes listed there. Afterwards xterm etc pops up without problems.

Might be relevant: I saw similar behaviour on a sparc64 at about
2.6.8-rc1 time - I could use only 2 pty's. That was with a kernel with
PREEMPT turned on. The specific kernel gave BUGs and oopses because
PREEMPT is not finished on sparc64 and I thought that the pty problem
was caused by broken PREEMPT. I turned PREEMPT off and haven't seen the
problem since then (running 2.6.8-rc4 currently).

-- 
Meelis Roos
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