Re: Why no more ptys on a Woody System?
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:54:40AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> The system was working fine until I fixed it.
>
> Now, it works except for when one needs to run the screen
> utility or anything else that spawns a shell including remote ssh
> logins. those logins almost succeed until the shell spawns at which
> point the session hangs indefinitely and you can't get out of it
> except to open another window on the remote system and kill the
> session that way.
>
> On friday, I created this problem when I cleaned up .bashrc
> and .bash_profile or at least it appears that I damaged the
> environment.
>
> If one looks in /dev/pts, there are no pseudo ttys and the
> condition exists immediately upon reboot so nothing is seizing the
> ptys. If you run expect, the sequence is:
>
What kernel do you have? Is devpts mounted? In my system (Ubuntu Hoary,
kernel 2.6.10-5-386), the /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs script mounts devpts.
--
Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don't forget to leave a tip.
Reply to: