Re: [Sheflug] screen & "No more PTYs"

["Graham Cox" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Probably a bit of a stupid suggestion, but have you got enough PTY's
allocated in the kernel build. It defaults to 256, but if you changed it to
something a lot lower then it's possible that you actually don't have enough
PTY's for screen to find a spare one...
--
Graham

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris J" <xxxxx [at] nightwolf.org.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 10:47 AM
Subject: [Sheflug] screen & "No more PTYs"


>
> Anyone come across this before? Trying to run screen on my Slack 8 box,
but
> its complaining first that there are "No more PTYs", followed by the
> message "Sorry, could not find a PTY.".
>
> Hunting the net, people that have had this problem before haven't had
/dev/p
> ts of fs type devpts mounted. I've got that, and also have UNIX98 PTY
> support built in (4 kernel builds later after breaking X and then sound).
>
> But screen is just refusing to start, even if run as root (in case it was
a
> perms problem).
>
> Anyone any suggestions ? It's getting a tad annoying ...
>
> Chris...
>
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