On Sunday 27 January 2013 04:46:22 Mike Edenfield wrote: > At some point recently, one of my systems has begun having problems > allocating pseudo-terminals via the UNIX98 pty scheme. I am using the > same kernel configuration I've had for years, and running the latest > ~amd64 version of all the relevant packages. The problem manifests > itself on any program that attempts to allocate a pseudo-terminal, > including portage and openssh. I first noticed the problem when I could > no longer ssh into the server because it would not allocate a pty. > > I have the latest udev installed, and udev-mount is running on boot. Both > /dev and /dev/pts are mounted, and /dev/ptmx exists and is > world-readable:
What does 'grep devtmpfs /etc/fstab' reveal? (Long shot - I misread the latest news article and changed one of the tmpfs fields to devtmpfs and got similar results to what you describe.) -- Peter
