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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: VirtusRex on July 11, 2007, 03:54:55 pm

Title: Rxvt Won't Initialize
Post by: VirtusRex on July 11, 2007, 03:54:55 pm

Hey guys,

I just setup debian pocketworkstation on my zaurus running pdaxii13. Now whenever I run rxvt I get the follow error:

urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty, aborting.

Anybody know what the problem is???

Thanks,

VirtusRex

Title: Rxvt Won't Initialize
Post by: Capn_Fish on July 11, 2007, 11:10:35 pm

Rxvt on Debian or PdaXii13?

Have you tried other terminals?

Title: Rxvt Won't Initialize
Post by: daniel3000 on July 12, 2007, 08:01:51 am

I also had this problem often in the past.

IIRC mounting devpts manually helped.

Code: [Select]

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
But I don't know why exactly this helped, and it also didn't always help.
Somehow the amount of available pseudo-ttys was exhausted, maybe becuase the pseudo-ttys didn't get released again after usage.

But this is all only a guess.
Does anyone have definitive information?

daniel

Title: Rxvt Won't Initialize
Post by: VirtusRex on July 12, 2007, 06:11:21 pm

Quote

I also had this problem often in the past.

IIRC mounting devpts manually helped.

Code: [Select]

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
But I don't know why exactly this helped, and it also didn't always help.
Somehow the amount of available pseudo-ttys was exhausted, maybe becuase the pseudo-ttys didn't get released again after usage.

But this is all only a guess.
Does anyone have definitive information?

daniel
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thanks Daniel3000, that seemed to work.

Title: Rxvt Won't Initialize
Post by: daniel3000 on July 13, 2007, 05:16:45 pm

Quote

Quote

I also had this problem often in the past.

IIRC mounting devpts manually helped.

Code: [Select]

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
But I don't know why exactly this helped, and it also didn't always help.
Somehow the amount of available pseudo-ttys was exhausted, maybe becuase the pseudo-ttys didn't get released again after usage.

But this is all only a guess.
Does anyone have definitive information?

daniel
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thanks Daniel3000, that seemed to work.
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Great.
But why??  

daniel

Title: Rxvt Won't Initialize
Post by: dsteuer on December 11, 2007, 04:00:32 am

Quote from: daniel3000

Quote

Quote

I also had this problem often in the past.

IIRC mounting devpts manually helped.

Code: [Select]

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
But I don't know why exactly this helped, and it also didn't always help.
Somehow the amount of available pseudo-ttys was exhausted, maybe becuase the pseudo-ttys didn't get released again after usage.

But this is all only a guess.
Does anyone have definitive information?

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164773\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

thanks Daniel3000, that seemed to work.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=164824\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Great.
But why??  

daniel

An old question, but for the record and the next one looking for a solution:

Most probably because the card was mounted implicitly with -o nodev.
Adding the option 'dev' in /etc/fstab for the sd-card (where I installed pocketworkstation) solved the problem for me.

detlef