From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F021386F6 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B3EB21C044; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mx-out.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E52E21C00F for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F365C6E2E for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([77.75.108.125]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id X8uibgfvJwjW for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6D7C6E2D for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:51:27 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.6.11-gentoo; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <002401cdfc49$41e0dc00$c5a29400$@kutulu.org> In-Reply-To: <002401cdfc49$41e0dc00$c5a29400$@kutulu.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201301280251.27537.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: cadcd289-c2a9-4bc5-8ffc-2ee15ff6950f X-Archives-Hash: ff73049a12806906c19523c42d9378d0 On Sunday 27 January 2013 04:46:22 Mike Edenfield wrote: > At some point recently, one of my systems has begun having problems > allocating pseudo-terminals via the UNIX98 pty scheme. I am using the > same kernel configuration I've had for years, and running the latest > ~amd64 version of all the relevant packages. The problem manifests > itself on any program that attempts to allocate a pseudo-terminal, > including portage and openssh. I first noticed the problem when I could > no longer ssh into the server because it would not allocate a pty. > > I have the latest udev installed, and udev-mount is running on boot. Both > /dev and /dev/pts are mounted, and /dev/ptmx exists and is > world-readable: What does 'grep devtmpfs /etc/fstab' reveal? (Long shot - I misread the latest news article and changed one of the tmpfs fields to devtmpfs and got similar results to what you describe.) -- Peter