On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error > "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0" > > I tried ssh -vv ..., but did not see anything meaningful. > > googling I found references to devices ptmx and pts. > > There is a /dev/ptmx. I can see it if I do ls /dev/ptmx but not if I > do ls /dev (why?). > > I also tried mount /dev/pts (as shown on google), but it failed > because /etc/fstab > does not have a corresponding entry. > > Am I going in the right direction, or something else the problem? > > Thank you, > > Mirko >
Oh, and this is from the mintty terminal. Mirko -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple