On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> So, I botched the upgrade to udev-191. I thought I'd followed the >>> steps, but I apparently only covered them for one machine, not both. >>> >>> The news item instructions specified that I had to remove >>> udev-postmount from my runlevels. I didn't have udev-postmount in my >>> runlevels, so I didn't remove it. Turns out, that dictum also applies >>> to udev-mount. So after removing that[1], I was able to at least boot >>> again. >>> >>> Udev also complained about DEVTMPFS not being enabled in the >>> kernel.[2] I couldn't get into X, but I could log in via getty and a >>> plain old vt, so I enabled it, rebuilt the kernel, installed it and >>> rebooted...and now that's presumably covered. >>> >>> I'm now able to get into X, but when I try to run an xterm, it fails. >>> Checking ~/.xsession_errors, I find: >>> >>> xterm: Error 32, error 2: No such file or directory >>> Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys >> >> Do you have CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y? If so, do you really need it? A >> little over a year ago[1] I had an annoying issue for having that >> option enabled in my kernel, with a lot of virtual ttys reported in >> systemctl. This is a shot in the dark (I really don't know if it's >> related to your problem), but perhaps having the LEGACY_PTYS option >> enabled somehow depleted your available pseudo terminals (which any X >> terminal needs to run)? I suppose screen is also out of the question >> for the same reason.
No, I don't have CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYs. I do have UNIX98 PTYs, and I tried enabling alternate namespaces, but that didn't help either. > > Also related, if you have LEGACY_PTYS: > > "LEGACY_PTY_COUNT: > > The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. > The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded > systems may want to reduce this to save memory. > > When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit > architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures." Yeah, I'm not using CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY, so LEGACY_PTY_COUNT doesn't even make itself available in menuconfig. -- :wq
