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derblub

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Registered: 2011-04-25

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[SOLVED] urxvt stoped working: can't initialize pseudo-tty

Hi guys!

So I have this strange issue with urxvt which just stopped working with one of the latest updates.

Right now I'm using awesomewm and only can launch xterm windows, but as soon as I wan't to launch urxvt:

urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty, aborting.

My /dev/pts is mounted

mount /dev/pts
mount: devpts is already mounted or /dev/pts busy
       devpts is already mounted on /dev/pts

Also, here is my fstab:

cat /etc/fstab
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
#....
#....

Any ideas what's going on there?
Many thanks in advance!

Last edited by derblub (2013-08-25 09:46:14)

anti-destin

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Registered: 2009-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt stoped working: can't initialize pseudo-tty

that devpts line in fstab should be removed.

derblub

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt stoped working: can't initialize pseudo-tty

that devpts line in fstab should be removed.

Nice, that helped - thanks for that fast reply!

Care to explain?

derhamster

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Registered: 2012-07-08

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt stoped working: can't initialize pseudo-tty

Allen mentioned here that systemd takes care of /dev/pts

anti-destin

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt stoped working: can't initialize pseudo-tty

it was removed a while back during one of the filesystem upgrades. see below:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168487
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1313371
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124607

i ran into the same problem and had to remove that line.

derblub

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Re: [SOLVED] urxvt stoped working: can't initialize pseudo-tty

thanks for the heads-up!