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Subject: Solution: xterm: no available ptys From: "Igmar Palsenberg" <palsenberg@tebenet.nl> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 18:59:42 +0200 >>> Since I upgraded to 6.0 I get the following message when I try to run >>> "xterm" or "nxterm": >>> >>> "xterm: no available ptys" >>> >>> "xiterm" seems to work ok. >>that means you're maxed out on logins. >What does that mean? "ls /dev/pty* | wc" gives 256 so is that >where >the "maxed out" is coming from? What should I do to get xterm to >work? >Danny Rice RedHat 6.0 switched to /dev/pts/x devices, and you don't have them :-). I think this is a major bug in 6.x Solution : create a device in /dev with major 5 minor 2 called ptmx: crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 May 6 18:30 ptmx create a directory pts in /dev Add the folluwing line to /etc/fstab : none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 Then make sure you kernel supports /dev/pts (UNIX98 PTY's). The default one does, or recompile it. You can check it by doing a cat on /proc/filesystems. I must contain a line like : nodev devpts After a reboot all should work. Please also not the the old /dev/ptypx devices will NOT work anymore. ===