[ltp] Run out of ptys?

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

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?
> 

What does "ps ax | grep pts/" show?  "ps ax | grep bash" (assuming
bash is your default shell) may be slight less verbose.

Jeffrey

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