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smoneck

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 105

[solved] Terminal is not starting

Hello!

By this morning, my terminal is not coming up any more.

I can't find anything in the logs, locales should be okay etc. The only trace I have is:

On another tty I get:

$ termite
The command failed to run: Failed to open PTY: permission denied

$ xterm
xterm: Error 32, errno 13: Permission denied
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys

Any ideas about this? Google results: 0.

Thanks!

Last edited by smoneck (2019-01-02 12:14:10)

smoneck

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Registered: 2014-05-14

Posts: 105

Re: [solved] Terminal is not starting

After the 4th(?) reboot it works again suddenly. The only thing I remember having changed was that I fixed a udev rule mentioning a non existing group. What an unsatisfactory garbage ...

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,811

Re: [solved] Terminal is not starting

If it creeps up again,

cat /proc/sys/kernel/pty/max /proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr
sudo lsof -n | grep pts

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