pts/pty problem since 2.6.8-rc2
Hi.
Whenever I boot a kernel of the 2.6.8-* series (also -rc3) I cannot open up any xterms in X. I first have to lsof /dev/pts and kill all the 1-5 processes listed there. Afterwards xterm etc pops up without problems.
Any ideas what could go wrong ?
Cheers,
Soeren.
SS> Whenever I boot a kernel of the 2.6.8-* series (also -rc3) I cannot open SS> up any xterms in X. I first have to lsof /dev/pts and kill all the 1-5 SS> processes listed there. Afterwards xterm etc pops up without problems.
Might be relevant: I saw similar behaviour on a sparc64 at about 2.6.8-rc1 time - I could use only 2 pty's. That was with a kernel with PREEMPT turned on. The specific kernel gave BUGs and oopses because PREEMPT is not finished on sparc64 and I thought that the pty problem was caused by broken PREEMPT. I turned PREEMPT off and haven't seen the problem since then (running 2.6.8-rc4 currently).
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SS> Whenever I boot a kernel of the 2.6.8-* series (also -rc3) I cannot open SS> up any xterms in X. I first have to lsof
/dev/ptsand kill all the 1-5 SS> processes listed there. Afterwards xterm etc pops up without problems.Might be relevant: I saw similar behaviour on a sparc64 at about 2.6.8-rc1 time - I could use only 2 pty's. That was with a kernel with PREEMPT turned on. The specific kernel gave BUGs and oopses because PREEMPT is not finished on sparc64 and I thought that the pty problem was caused by broken PREEMPT. I turned PREEMPT off and haven't seen the problem since then (running 2.6.8-rc4 currently).
actually I don't use a PREEMPT enabled kernel... but still see this problem (but not with 2.6.7)...
I don't have a real idea what is causing this... anyway if I kill all processes that were listed in lsof /dev/pts the problem seems gone... not sure whether this is some endianess thing (powerpc here)...
clueless,
Soeren