no more ssh-login after kernel-update to 2.6.9

[Eike Herzbach <eike@herzbach.net>]

hi,

i got the following problem:

after upgrading from 2.4.20 to 2.6.9 i can no longer login via ssh. 
(switched back to 2.4.20 now)
i tried some things:
running the MAKEDEV script and
append="devfs=mount" in lilo.conf but that didnt help..

any clues?


/var/log/auth.log:
sshd[399]: error: openpty: No such file or directory
sshd[401]: error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed

libc-version: 2.3.2

Host type: i386-pc-linux-gnu
System: Linux 2.4.20 #1 SMP Wed Jan 8 12:49:03 CET 2003 i586 unknown
Architecture: i586

sshd version OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3


cheers,
eike