Thanks, T.! I recompiled the kernel with LEGACY_PTYS and all is good. Cheers, .....G On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 02:56, T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:05:41PM -0400, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > 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? > > There was some noise about code that expects older (BSD?) style ptys > by default CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set in FC2. > > Do you have a pointer to xgterm source? > i.e. where did your package come from. > > If it is the difference in the way pty's are used then rebuilding the > kernel or fixing xgterm are both possible solutions. > > With luck the pty code in xgterm is set with a make configure thing > and make. > > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage. -- ***************************************************** ** Gordon Campbell ** ** Computer Systems Administrator ** ** Department of Physics, Queen's University ** ** Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 ** ** (613) 533-6000 x74781 ** ** gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** ** perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2), \ ** ** sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' ** *****************************************************
