H'lo Willie,
The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short:
r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts
/dev/ptmx
/dev/pts:
udev was emerged twice quite recently:
1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2
1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1
My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago.
As you seem to suspect udev and /dev/pt* seems b0rked, I'll try
downgrading back to 141-r1 to see what happens.
Regards,
David
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:00:33 -0500
Willie Wong wrote:
> Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most
> likely something else broke on your system.
>
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> > ssh into box gives:
> >
> > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
>
> Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me?
>
> > ### recently emerged packages ###
>
> How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a
> new kernel? Did you upgrade udev by any chance? The only other suspect
> that I see is util-linux, but you are on the stable version.
> >
> > app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14
> > app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3
> > dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5
> > dev-util/global-5.7.7
> > media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a
> > media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21
> > media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1
> > sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2
> > virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1
> > virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2
> > virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1
>
> Cheers,
>
> W
>
> --
> Willie W. Wong
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> quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
