My problem is back. I get this every few months.
After 13 days of uptime, I can't open new `xterm's or `rxvt's (even
as root):
bash-2.01# xterm
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
xterm: no available ptys
bash-2.01# rxvt
rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty
rxvt: aborting
An `strace' command shows simply I/O error:
bash-2.01# strace rxvt
[lots deleted]
open("/dev/ptyp0", O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error)
open("/dev/ptyp1", O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error)
[...]
open("/dev/ptysf", O_RDWR) = -1 EIO (I/O error)
The following command lists no users using any pty's! :
bash-2.01# for i in /dev/pty* ; do echo $i; fuser $i ; done
However, I have this from `ps aux' :
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT ST START TIME COMMAND
rhogee 1500 0.0 0.5 812 320 p1 S Jan 30 0:00 /usr/local/bin/gnuserv
rhogee 1668 0.0 1.8 1772 1164 p0 S Jan 30 0:01 -tcsh
So I know some are in use!
(Can you believe this? I may have to reboot! :-)
I have Debian 1.3 but have installed XFree-3.3 (with xterm) and rxvt v2.4.5
separately from Debian. Perhaps that is part of my problem.
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