[wellylug] BLFS Problems..

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 06:50, michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> 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.
yes - I did that, and it didn't work...
It says that's what should be done in the LFS book.

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