Re: »No more PTYs« message

[Samuel Thibault]

Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 25 May 2012 11:34:45 +0200, a écrit :
> We've been seeing this on darnassus several times: try to allocate a PTY
> (log in via SSH, or start screen, etc.), and get a »No more PTYs«
> message.  Now the same happend on flubber: I could log in via SSH, but
> starting screen failed.  I did a »ls -l /dev/tty* /dev/pty*« (which will
> start all translators due to »stat«ing the nodes) -- and then I was able
> to start screen.  Strange?

Usually I've seen that *not* because term translators are not started,
but because they are all somehow busy, and openpty doesn't want to use
them for some reason. I would kill them and then it'd be ok again. ls
might have another side effect resulting to curing the issue too. I
haven't had time to investigate further.

Samuel