On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 12:03:11PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > I upgraded to the latest unstable, including glibc 2.1, and suddenly > windows ssh clients, and some unix ones too, started getting "the > server couldn't allocate a pseudo-terminal". What can I do? It's not a > problem of all pty's being used. > > I tried to recompile sshd to no avail. > > If I can't get this to work quickly I'll have to downgrade...
Then again maybe you could read the docs. You have two choices... a) rm -f /dev/ptmx b) make sure your kernel (2.2.x) is compiled with devpts support and mount /dev/pts/ (read the kernel docs) This stems from the fact that glibc 2.1 enables use of Unix98 pty's and if /dev/ptmx is present then glibc expects /dev/pts/ to be mounted.
