Re: xterm: no available ptys
> After 13 days of uptime, I can't open new `xterm's or `rxvt's (even
> as root).
> [...]
> I have this from `ps aux' :
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT ST START TIME COMMAND
> rhogee 1500 0.0 0.5 812 320 p1 S Jan 30 0:00 /usr/local/bin/gnuserv
I don't know if `gnuserv' was doing this, however... I exited Emacs-20.2
and it asked whether to kill a running process (with it doesn't usually do
for gnuserv). I did. After that `rxvt' and `xterm' worked correctly!
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Peter Galbraith, research scientist <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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