xterm failure: get_pty: not enough ptys

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Aug 9 19:39:23 UTC 2004



On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:52:58PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
> > 
> > Now when I invoke xterm - I get the error:
> > 
> > ----
> > xterm : Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
> 
> See 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128154
> with a looong discussion, and extensive "cc list",  and links to
> what seems like related bugs.  It appears that you are lucky that
> you got that only now although I have to see that yet on x86 system.
> It hits me regularly on an x86_64 installation though.

Thanks for the bugzilla link. I has earlier searched for 'get_pty' -
and didn't get any matches.

This must be the second time I must have seen this happen on x86.

Satish





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