Unable to allocate tty?

[Vicky Staubly]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Wes Shull wrote:
> Vicky Staubly <vicky at steeds.com> wrote:
> > once in a while, I'll log in via ssh only to be told that
> > it couldn't allocate a tty.
> 
> Could be related to 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127048
> 
> and the other bugs referenced in comments on that one.  Never did see any 
> official explanation, but the problem seems to have gone away with newer 
> kernel builds.

Hi Wes! Small world! How have you been?

I think mine is somewhat different. I went back and looked at my system
logs. In /var/log/secure, I see the following lines:

Sep 27 12:17:01 clydesdale sshd[25696]: pam_succeed_if: requirement "uid < 100" not met by user "vicky"
Sep 27 12:17:01 clydesdale sshd[25696]: Accepted password for vicky from ::ffff:12.34.56.78 port 61089
Sep 27 12:17:08 clydesdale sshd[25696]: error: openpty: No such file or directory
Sep 27 12:17:08 clydesdale sshd[25698]: error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed

Could it have something to do with the new dev filesystem? I see a
similar message in bug #129990, but I have different symptoms. I can
log in normally for some time. Then after a few days, I get this. I
am able to log in, but the shell isn't very usable. An already existing
shh login shell continues to be usable. In fact, I was able to use it
to execute a "shutdown -r now" remotely, and then log in successfully
after the reboot completed.

And, since the above listed bug references SELinux, I'll probably either
reinstall without SELinux, or install FC3T2 (or more likely both, even
though it might be more scientific to change one thing at a time).

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