Re: xterm won't start

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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-27 10:28:48 -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I've had a pty-related error with xterm on PowerPC in the past. I had
>>> to use the following workaround in my app-defaults file for XTerm:
>>>
>> I don't think it is related (it's a different error code).
>>
>
> I confirm. I've installed a 2.6.22 kernel (with CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS
> unset) on my x86 machine with eightBitInput set to false, and I've
> no problems with xterm (229-1).
>

I should have made it clear that I am using a (the latest package) stock 2.6.22 (486) kernel. It would seem that I must have made some kind of install mistake to lead to:

xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys

Paul

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