[CLUE-Tech] "PTY problems" or "I'm an Idiot"

[Chris Terry]

Chris Terry wrote:

> David Anselmi wrote:
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>> Chris Terry wrote: 
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> complain
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>> Linux virtual consoles (ALT-F[1-x]) use /dev/ttyx, not a pseudo 
>> terminal.  So that is irrelevant to your problem.
>> It might help to have the exact error message.  Here are some guesses:
>> If any of your PTY stuff is compiled as a module, is the module 
>> getting loaded?
>> Do you have /dev/pts, /dev/ptmx, or /dev/pty?? created?  Do you have 
>> /dev/pts mounted as a devpts filesystem (Debian has a boot script for 
>> this)?
>> Perhaps this helps:
>> http://www.patoche.org/LTT/kernel/00000172.html
>>
>> Dave
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> I'm sorry, I guess I was a little inspecific.  I meant to say that the 
> virtual consoles were working perfectly, but things like xterm and 
> remote connections weren't.  When I use putty from my windows box I 
> get "Remote server unable to allocate psuedo terminal."  and from 
> multi-gnome-terminal I get "Couldn't allocate PTY.  Is your system 
> configured for Unix98 PTY support?" I've got all the /dev stuff in 
> there, and devpts is mounted at boot.  I'll try out the link when I 
> get to my linux box and let you know.
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Aha!  Thanks Dave.  It worked perfectly.  I guess devpts was being a jerk.