From: Denis Shcherbakov <denis.che@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] after recent update - openpty failed: 'out of pty devices' - please help?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:06:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAATejyCCT2dCnfaoQYWU0Kg0gYLaP=ukQ9VA8POfvBr-hEv95w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I was doing a lot of upgrading, and eventually I ended up with a situation
where if I run emerge, I get
openpty failed: 'out of pty devices'
If I try to remote log in to my SSH server, it says "server refused to
allocate pty".
I upgraded to GCC 4.6.3 today and switched my profile over to it, while
most of my system has been build on GCC 4.4 - I'm not sure if that matters
here. I'm currently on kernel 2.6.35-gentoo-r12, and I was making strides
to upgrade the system so I could migrate to udev-204 from udev-171-r6 which
I currently have.
When I upgraded to the 3.8.13 kernel today, I got the normal gdm login
interface I use, but when I tried to login - no dice! SSH server refused
to allocate PTY, and I could not kill X in order to get into a terminal (at
least, it starts right back up).
So I figured maybe I made a mistake configuring the new kernel, so I
reverted back to my 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 kernel, and X of course wouldn't come
up because my nvidia modules have been re-made for the new kernel. I was
able to log in to the system under the old kernel, but when I run any
emerge, it says "openpty failed: 'out of pty devices'".
So all of a sudden it doesn't seem to be connected to my upgrade to the new
kernel, as the old kernel does the same thing.
Where do I start looking for a problem? I can follow instructions, but
beyond using emerge and updating the system, I don't know a whole lot about
inner workings.
I sure woud appreciate some help to get me out of this bind. :-(
Thank you,
Denis
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2013-06-28 19:06 Denis Shcherbakov [this message]
2013-06-28 21:10 ` [gentoo-user] after recent update - openpty failed: 'out of pty devices' - please help? Michael Orlitzky
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