[ltp] Run out of ptys?

Satish Balay linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:34:29 -0500 (CDT)


> Quoting Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>:
> > I never saw this on my previous Debian on Toshiba system. OTOH, I
> > never ran 2.6.8.1 on it either, so I'm not blaming my Thinkpad :-)
> > 
> > hephaistos:~$ pterm
> > /dev/ptmx: open: Input/output error
> > hephaistos:~$ xterm
> > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
> > 
> > This happens after the machine has been running for a day or two.
> > Any thoughts?

I've seen this on an early FC3-beta kernel - but not recently. But the
bugzilla is still open.. You might want to check it out.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128154

Satish