[Eug-lug] bad terms
Rob Hudson
rob at euglug.net
Fri Apr 30 13:05:20 PDT 2004
On 20040430.1146, Bob Miller said ...
> Rob Hudson wrote:
>
> > I recently got Debian up on my laptop, and X working. When I try to
> > launch an xterm, however, it dies right away.
>
> Sounds like pseudo-terminals (ptys) aren't working. Verify by trying
> some non-X11 programs that require ptys such as ssh (inbound), script
> or screen. I bet they don't work either.
I turned on X11Forwarding and logged in via ssh passing the -X flag,
tried to launch an xterm and got this:
xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
-Rob
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