On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:54:40AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > The system was working fine until I fixed it. > > Now, it works except for when one needs to run the screen > utility or anything else that spawns a shell including remote ssh > logins. those logins almost succeed until the shell spawns at which > point the session hangs indefinitely and you can't get out of it > except to open another window on the remote system and kill the > session that way. > > On friday, I created this problem when I cleaned up .bashrc > and .bash_profile or at least it appears that I damaged the > environment. > > If one looks in /dev/pts, there are no pseudo ttys and the > condition exists immediately upon reboot so nothing is seizing the > ptys. If you run expect, the sequence is: > What kernel do you have? Is devpts mounted? In my system (Ubuntu Hoary, kernel 2.6.10-5-386), the /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs script mounts devpts.
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