rxvt sporadic problem
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <rhogee@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> writes:
>> rxvt
Peter> rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt: aborting
This could be a problem of running out of pseudo tty's which is a
limited ressource. However, I do not remember seeing such a thing on
any singleuser computer (ie. in most ordinary conditions; it takes
more than a few users to use up the defaults).
Are you running a server with lot of users or do you create
extraordinary many sessions (xterms/rxvt/login/rsh)? Each session
takes a tty, so most X sessions takes quite a lot, though I personally
never had problems. However, if a rogue script is executing rsh's or
rxvt's in an infinite loop, you will of course run dry at some point.
Peter> I get this error under a non-root account, and then 10 minutes
Peter> later the command works again.
Certainly sounds like `to few ressources with too many consumers'.
Try doing a `who' command. I believe that lists all allocated ttys.
I do not know how to enlarge the number of tty's on a linux box, but
there is undoubtedly a guru on this list that knows.
Peter> xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry.
Somewhat strange. The xterm terminal definition definitely is in the
standard database.
Perhaps your environment is pointing to something non-standard. Check
for settings of the TERMCAP or TERMINFO environment variables, and
unset them if present.
You can also try to check the directory:
/usr/lib/terminfo/x
which should contain a file named `xterm'. If that is present, the
database should be ok, I guess.
On my system, that directory looks like:
x10term x820 xerox820 xterm-color xterms-sun
x1700 xenix xl83 xterm-nic
x1700-lm xerox xtalk xterm-pcolor
x1720 xerox-lm xterm xterm-sun
x1750 xerox1720 xterm-bold xterms
If you get really desparate, it is a rather small thing to install a
new xterm terminfo entry (though you probably want to find out what is
going on).
You can even have a personal ~/.terminfo directory, complementing the
system entries, which just is yet another thing that shows how
wonderfull a UNIX system linux really is.
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