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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "J. Hidding" <J.Hidding@student.rug.nl>
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Subject: Re: [2.5.67-mm4] Can't open pty's
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 05:26:17AM +0200, J. Hidding wrote:
> 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
> --

Your problem is:
#
# Non-8250 serial port support
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=64

Increase CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT to 2048 or thereabouts.


-- wli