awang@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Alice Wang) (06/17/88)
I've been having problem to run xterm lately which used to work properly. The error message I got is "xterm: Not enough available pty's". Does anyone out there who might know what went wrong ? Any info. is appreciated. Note: I'm running XV11R2 on Apollo 9.7. -Alice-
jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) (06/17/88)
Surprisingly enough this error message is probably correct.
You should do the following:
% cd /dev
% /etc/crpty 16
This will make sure that you have 16 pty's. Be sure to do
this again when you upgrade the operating system (unless SR10 happens
to not have this wart).
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awang@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Alice Wang), writes: >I've been having problem to run xterm lately which used to work properly. >The error message I got is "xterm: Not enough available pty's". >Does anyone out there who might know what went wrong ? I've run into this problem to, and the reason (?) was that somehow all the pty files in /dev inherited the ID ( and ownership ) of the last user who opened them. That is, if the previous user had opened for example 10 windows, there were 10 pty files which had his ID, and which I therefore couldn't open. I fixed it then by opening lots of old xterms ( I was trying to run the new one ), which changed all the pty's ownership to my ID. Either this is a bug in the new xterm or it must be initially set up by super-user ( I was running xterm from my home bin directory ). Strangely enough this hasn't happened again, so I haven't investigated this more closely, but this might be it. -Kjartan- P.S: Thanks to everybody for the answers regarding color table issues. They shed some light on the darker corners of the Xlib manual I have ( the very first and most primitive that exists I believe). ........................................................................... "If you don't like what your left hemisphere thinks, shoot if off." Kjartan Pierre Emilsson, Iceland. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~