RE: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys

[Mike Edenfield]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Humphrey [mailto:peter@××××××××××××××.org]
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:51 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openpty() failing with UNIX98 ptys
>
> 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.)

I don't have any devtmpfs in my /etc/fstab; I think I removed a lot of
pseudo-mount points a while back when I added udev-mount to my runlevel.

--Mike