Re: "can't open pseudo-terminal" error with glibc 2.1 (potato)
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.
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