Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most
likely something else broke on your system. 

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> ssh into box gives:
> 
>       PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me?

> ### recently emerged packages ###

How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a
new kernel? Did you upgrade udev by any chance? The only other suspect
that I see is util-linux, but you are on the stable version. 
> 
> app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14
> app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3
> dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5
> dev-util/global-5.7.7
> media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a
> media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21
> media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1
> sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2
> virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1
> virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2
> virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1

Cheers, 

W

-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     ww...@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

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