Re: [2.5.67-mm4] Can't open pty's

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 05:26:17AM +0200, J. Hidding wrote:
> Xterm (nor any other VT) won't run on my freshly compiled 
> 2.5.67-mm4 kernel. It says:
> --
> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
> --

Your problem is:
#
# Non-8250 serial port support
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=64

Increase CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT to 2048 or thereabouts.

-- wli