[wellylug] BLFS Problems..

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

Jethro Carr writes:
>hi,
>
>I'm creating a blfs for my laptop. I can get gnome & everything working
>:), but I have these problems:		:(
>
>- Xterm & gnome-terminal don't work. The error message from xterm is:
>        xterm: Error 32, errno: No such file or directory
>        Reason: get_pty: not enough pty's
>The file does exist.Gnome-terminal just displays a blinking cursor, with
>no text on screen.I think it is a dependency the virtual terminals want,
>or some sort of setting???

Googling for "get_pty: not enough pty" gives me Andrew Morton saying:

| Apparently you now need to mount the devpts filesystem on /dev/pts.
| 
| Red Hat 8's /etc/fstab has
| 
|         none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 

And certainly my box (Debian stable) has the devpts filesystem mounted
on /dev/pts.