> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Humphrey [mailto:pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org] > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:51 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys > > On Sunday 27 January 2013 04:46:22 Mike Edenfield wrote: > > At some point recently, one of my systems has begun having problems > > allocating pseudo-terminals via the UNIX98 pty scheme. I am using the > > same kernel configuration I've had for years, and running the latest > > ~amd64 version of all the relevant packages. The problem manifests > > itself on any program that attempts to allocate a pseudo-terminal, > > including portage and openssh. I first noticed the problem when I could > > no longer ssh into the server because it would not allocate a pty. > > > > I have the latest udev installed, and udev-mount is running on boot. Both > > /dev and /dev/pts are mounted, and /dev/ptmx exists and is > > world-readable: > > What does 'grep devtmpfs /etc/fstab' reveal? (Long shot - I misread the > latest news article and changed one of the tmpfs fields to devtmpfs and got > similar results to what you describe.)
I don't have any devtmpfs in my /etc/fstab; I think I removed a lot of pseudo-mount points a while back when I added udev-mount to my runlevel. --Mike
