terminal and ssh problems

[Rusty]

Hi, I'm having a problem when I try to open gnome-terminal in x the
terminal window opens but hangs and I never get a command prompt.
When I try to ssh in I get a "system refused to allocate a pty".

If I shell out of x to a command prompt (ctrl-alt-f1) everything works
normally.

/dev is full of ptyxx devices.

I did a trace on gnome-terminal and it seemed to be hanging at "unable
to open display"

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Rusty

[Bit Twister]

On 2 May 2004 17:15:35 -0700, Rusty wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem when I try to open gnome-terminal in x the
> terminal window opens but hangs and I never get a command prompt.

>

> I did a trace on gnome-terminal and it seemed to be hanging at "unable
> to open display"
>
> Any thoughts?

try ssh -X -l wilmesr target_box
and man ssh for debugging switches.

[Rusty]

Bit Twister <BitTw...@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<slrnc9b8sv.o...@wb.home.invalid>...

I tested the above ssh command w/ localhost as target_box and it hung.

I do-over w/ a -vvv option shows (after encryption negotiation):

a bunch of tty_make_modes
fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY
channel request 0: shell
callback done
channel -: open confrim rwindow - rmax 32768
channel -: rcfd adust 131072

then it hangs the process. I can still switch between terminals
(ctrl-alt-fx) and all other programs seem normal w/ the exception of
gnome-terminal from w/i gnome and ssh. I can only assume the two
problems are connected.