Samuel Thibault, le Fri 25 May 2012 11:39:53 +0200, a écrit : > Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 25 May 2012 11:34:45 +0200, a écrit : > > We've been seeing this on darnassus several times: try to allocate a PTY > > (log in via SSH, or start screen, etc.), and get a »No more PTYs« > > message. Now the same happend on flubber: I could log in via SSH, but > > starting screen failed. I did a »ls -l /dev/tty* /dev/pty*« (which will > > start all translators due to »stat«ing the nodes) -- and then I was able > > to start screen. Strange? > > Usually I've seen that *not* because term translators are not started, > but because they are all somehow busy, and openpty doesn't want to use > them for some reason. I would kill them and then it'd be ok again. ls > might have another side effect resulting to curing the issue too. I > haven't had time to investigate further.
Also, it only happens on some boxes, on buildds and my hurd box, I don't have the issue. It's very simple to test actually: log off from the machine, log on again, and check whether ssh was able to reuse the tty you had. Samuel
