"xterm: no available ptys"

Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC

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Jul 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/20/00

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Evening everyone:

Does it make sence that I have 15 xterms open and I'm out of PTYs
already? I also have XConsole, which probably snatches one as well.

Just doesn't make sence that the GENERIC kernel would only have, say, 20
TTYs by default. I'm downloading syssrc.tgz now and I'm going to roll one
with more TTYs.

Insight anyone?

Brian A. Seklecki Stargate Industries, LLC
Network Operations Center http://www.stargate.net/
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Michael Loftis

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Jul 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/20/00

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32 actually IIRC -- you also have to remember some daemons may steal one
here and there, and the console itself uses one. (not the graphics part,
the text console that still exists)

Grey Wolf

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Jul 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/20/00

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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote:

# Evening everyone:
#
# Does it make sence that I have 15 xterms open and I'm out of PTYs
# already? I also have XConsole, which probably snatches one as well.
#
# Just doesn't make sence that the GENERIC kernel would only have, say, 20
# TTYs by default. I'm downloading syssrc.tgz now and I'm going to roll one
# with more TTYs.

Did you MAKEDEV pty1 pty2 pty3 pty4 ...?

#
# Insight anyone?
#
#
# Brian A. Seklecki Stargate Industries, LLC
# Network Operations Center http://www.stargate.net/
# The Crane Building, Suite 300 (412) 316-STAR x7719 - voice
# 40 24th St. (412) 316-7899 - fax
# Pittsburgh, PA 15222 BSek...@Stargate.Net
#
#
#

--*greywolf;

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Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC

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Jul 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/20/00

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It's still rolling now. It's a 40 MHz IPX w/ 64 & 64. I use it to do
everything but Netscape - run that remotely of the SunOS boxen.

Once it gets done, I'll reboot and run /dev/MAKDEV ...

-lava

Brian A. Seklecki Stargate Industries, LLC

Network Operations Center http://www.stargate.net/

The Crane Building, Suite 300 (412) 316-STAR x7719 - voice

40 24th St. (412) 316-7899 - fax

Pittsburgh, PA 15222 BSek...@Stargate.Net

Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC

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Jul 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/21/00

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Alright, I don't know whats up with this.

I recompiled with "OPTIONS UNCONSOLE" as well as:

pseudo-device pty 256 # pseudo-ttys (for network, etc.)

Yet I still recieve the same error message after about 20 xterms.

I've ran /dev/MAKEDEV, same restul

I tried running "./MAKEDEV 1 ; ./MAKEDEV 2 " ...up to 15, same result

Suggestions anyone?

Eduardo Horvath

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Jul 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/21/00

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote:

> Alright, I don't know whats up with this.
>
> I recompiled with "OPTIONS UNCONSOLE" as well as:
>
> pseudo-device pty 256 # pseudo-ttys (for network, etc.)
>
> Yet I still recieve the same error message after about 20 xterms.
>
> I've ran /dev/MAKEDEV, same restul
>
> I tried running "./MAKEDEV 1 ; ./MAKEDEV 2 " ...up to 15, same result

Make sure the pty device nodes are being created.

`MAKEDEV 1' won't work. Try ./MAKEDEV pty1.

If you really do have all those pty device nodes created and you still
get those errors then try running the program ktrace(1) to see what it's
trying to do.

Eduardo Horvath

Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC

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Jul 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/21/00

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Someone in a chat room might have suggested "sh ./MAKEDEV all", but I'm
not going to name anyone ;-)

I'll try it when I get back into the office.

-Brian