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From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>
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Subject: Re: Problems with my terminal device files
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On Sunday 01 June 2003 17:41, Fernando M. Maresca wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:48:28PM +0000, Daniela wrote:
> > I have with the konsole in KDE and with SSH.
> > I logged out from KDE and logged back in, and suddenly, when I try to
> > open a konsole, I get the following error:
> > Unable to open a suitable terminal device.
> >
> > Fortunately, I have some shells open from my previously saved session.
> > When I try to open a konsole from one of these, I see the following:
> > Can't open a pseudo teletype.
> >
> > Next I tried:
> > %ssh 127.0.0.1
> > ...
> > Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor).
> > Thus no job control in this shell.
> >
> > I guess there's something wrong with my device files, but I didn't change
> > anything. Before logging out, the konsole worked (haven't tried SSH in
> > the last few days).
> > What's going on here? Please help.
> >
> > Daniela
>
> don't understand: you can not open konsoles (kde-xterm) or you can't
> loggin in a pseudo tty? Not the same: if teh problem is konsole, try
> xterm, the x window system terminal emulation. try ssh localhost from
> inside xterm, should work.

Thanks for your reply.
Xterm says that I don't have enough ptys. How do I make more?

Daniela