H'lo Willie, The output of "ls /dev/pt*" is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx
/dev/pts: udev was emerged twice quite recently: 1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2 1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1 My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago. As you seem to suspect udev and /dev/pt* seems b0rked, I'll try downgrading back to 141-r1 to see what happens. Regards, David On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:00:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most > likely something else broke on your system. > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > > ssh into box gives: > > > > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > > Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? > > > ### recently emerged packages ### > > How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a > new kernel? Did you upgrade udev by any chance? The only other suspect > that I see is util-linux, but you are on the stable version. > > > > app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 > > app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 > > dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 > > dev-util/global-5.7.7 > > media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a > > media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 > > media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 > > sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 > > virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 > > virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 > > virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1 > > Cheers, > > W > > -- > Willie W. Wong > ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes > quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton