On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:47, Gordon Campbell wrote: > I've just run across a problem that I need to fix for my department head > ASAP. > > He's planning to use an astronimical image processing package called IRAF > that relies upon xgterm for funtionality. The problem is that when you > try to run xgterm on his machine it hesitate, then reports that there are > "no more available ptys". > > I'm completely stumped by this and haven't been able to find anythint > recent to help. He's running Core 2, completely up to date, on a Dell > Inspiron 8200. I checked my desktop machine, also running up to date Core > 2, and it has the identical issue. Two other Core 1 machines don't have > the problem. > > I'd be most grateful for any information or pointers. Thanks. It may be a permissions issue. Have you checked /dev/pty* to see if they are read/write for the user in question? -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
