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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "J. Hidding" <J.Hidding@student.rug.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.5.67-mm4] Can't open pty's
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:29:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030418212949.2b9a7d6e.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <web-6774367@mail.rug.nl>

"J. Hidding" <J.Hidding@student.rug.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> Xterm (nor any other VT) won't run on my freshly compiled 
> 2.5.67-mm4 kernel. It says:
> 
> --
> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys

Apparently you now need to mount the devpts filesystem on /dev/pts.

Red Hat 8's /etc/fstab has

	none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0




      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-19  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-19  3:26 J. Hidding
2003-04-19  4:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-19  4:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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