xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory

[newtwogentwo]

I am somewhat new to Gentoo and I get the following strange error when I attempt to open an xterm window:

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

Does anybody have any ideas why I might be getting this error? I may have messed something up in the setup process.. not so sure what I'm doing. So I would be happy to try whatever suggestions you might have.

Thanks again..

[jk3us]

Can you give a little more info? What kernel version are you using (run uname -r)? Are you using udev or devfs? Has this worked before? Have you recently recompiled your kernel? Have you been playing with udev rules or anything?

[newtwogentwo]

thanks jk3us...

kernel version is 2.6.11-gentoo-r11

Although I don't know much about devfs and udev and how exactly they work.. I believe I am using udev since "ps aux | grep dev" returned a process called udevd. I'm assuming this is the default when installing from stage3 since I don't remember ever actually specifying this..

It did work before! And I don't believe i recently recompiled my kernel or played with udev rules.. I emerged things over time but that is about all the activity I have personally done (I think) since this problem started..

thanks again..

[jk3us]

reading through some other posts, Here are something that other suggested.

* run etc-update, and then perhaps udevstart
* reboot ?

see:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2427185-highlight-.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-339303-highlight-ptys.html
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-284903-highlight-udev+pty.html

hope this helps.

[newtwogentwo]

jk3us,

thanks for the tips.. i use dispatch-conf rather than etc-update. So I tried running dispatch-conf followed by udevstart which did not solve the problem and also rebooting did not solve the problem.

another weird thing i should report.. running udevstart changes the permissions on my /dev/null file to crw-rw---- everytime i run it.. shouldnt this file generally be crw-rw-rw-??

also, if anyone has any other ideas.. it would be much appreciated as being unable to run xterm is quite a hindrance!

thanks in advance..

newtwogentwo

[CBarcley]

Did you solve the problem yet?

I have the same.

Calvin

[newtwogentwo]

I actually don't remember, but I followed another post which I cannot find anymore. It was something like deleting some group of files and re-emerging udev and rebooting... anyway try the latter two..

[mag_windows]

after 2 days of searching I solved it with:
chmod 666 /dev/ptmx