"get_pty: not enough ptys" error

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iskenderoguz

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I tried to open terminal using
Code:
xterm&
command. First four xterm commands work but when I typed xterm for fifth time, I get
Code:
xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys
Exit 32

How can I solve this ?

my kernel is : debian 2.6.30
 


After a quick bit of duckduckgo-fu, I found this old bug report in Debians bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392244

Which looks like it's exactly the same situation that you are experiencing. You might want to try to investigate some of the things mentioned in that thread.
If you run the ltrace command mentioned in that thread:
Code:
ltrace -S -o ltrace-xterm xterm
I get the feeling that the output from the above command will most likely point to a misconfiguration of udev as a reason for xterm to fail, just as it did for the OP in that thread.

Have a read through the above link and investigate some of the things mentioned in it. Hopefully that will help!
 

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