[Eug-lug] bad terms

[Rob Hudson]

On 20040430.1238, Bob Miller said ...

> Rob Hudson wrote:
> 
> > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
> 
> Find out how many ptys are already in use.  Maybe something is eating them.
> 
> 	# lsof | grep pts
> 
> I don't know how to change the number of ptys in the system.

rob at laptop:~$ lsof | grep pts
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() devfs file system /var/lib/noflushd/devfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
kdeinit   1147         rob    9r   REG        0,2       0      4111 /proc/interrupts
bash      4686         rob    0u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
bash      4686         rob    1u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
bash      4686         rob    2u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
bash      4686         rob  255u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
lsof      4693         rob    0u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
lsof      4693         rob    2u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
grep      4694         rob    1u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0
grep      4694         rob    2u   CHR      136,0                 2 /dev/pts/0

What's that tell you?