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