Re: xterm: no available ptys - 115

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Johan_Myr=E9en?= (jem@vistacom.fi)
Sat, 8 Aug 1998 09:58:49 +0300 (EET DST)


On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Bob Lorenzini wrote:

> As reported by at least one other, I also see:

> xterm: no available ptys
> rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty
> rxvt: aborting

The old ptys apparently stopped working in 2.1.115. With old,
I mean really old, the ones with major number 4. These were
missing in my nearly-prehistoric Debian/Slackware/homebrew
system. Creating the new (now old) ptys with major 2 and 3
fixed the problem.

-- 
Johan Myréen
jem@iki.fi

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