From e089958182566e2076ecf724dd2871edf287dcfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 17:20:33 +0200 Subject: SSH: PTY allocation request failed --- open_issues/ssh_pty_allocation_request_failed.mdwn | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/ssh_pty_allocation_request_failed.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues') diff --git a/open_issues/ssh_pty_allocation_request_failed.mdwn b/open_issues/ssh_pty_allocation_request_failed.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..af9e7135 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/ssh_pty_allocation_request_failed.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="SSH: PTY allocation request failed"]] + +Occasionally seen when `ssh`ing to a Hurd system: + + $ ssh [...] + PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 + GNU laplace 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20180218-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386 + This is the GNU Hurd. Welcome. [...] + [No prompt displayed.] + [C-d] + Connection to [...] closed. + +That is, we failed to get a PTY allocated. + +We currently set up a limited number of translator nodes providing preallocated +PTYs ([[hurd/translator/term]] translator instances), instead of dynamically +allocating via `/dev/ptmx`, for example. +(Which might or might not resolve this issue; there might be some resource leak +involved?) + +Last seen timestamp: 2018-07 (lost exact date). -- cgit v1.2.3