[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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