PC sarts fine and I can ssh to it remotely. But after I start vmware-workstation I get
PC sarts fine and I can ssh to it remotely. But after I start vmware-workstation I get ¨server refused to allocate pty¨ when I try ssh to it remotely. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gentoo linux 2. Start kde 3.3 3. Start vmware-workstation 4.5.2 4. Try to ssh to the machine over the network 5. Supply root username with password Actual Results: I get ¨Server refused to allocate pty¨ message Expected Results: It should have allocated a pty device My kernel is 2.6.8.1 vanilla, kde is 3.3, vmware-workstation is 4.5.2, I only started to see this after upgrading to kde 3.3 from 3.2, and kernel 2.6.8.1 from 2.6.7.
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I´m also running xorg-x11 6.8 I can see same behaviour with xfce as well. If I unmount /dev/pts and remount it, I can get a pty. The moment I start vmware pty allocation stops!
your vmware station has devpts mounted on /dev/pts/ ? anything interesting from the system logs/dmesg ?
I don
I don´t understand the first question fully! My devpts is mounted on /dev/pts by the following line in /etc/fstab: none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 Nothing unusual in /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon, I´m not sure if it´s related, but I´m running udev not devfs.
Downgraded xorg-x11 from 6.8 to 6.7 and problem is gone!
Just when I thought that everything is ok now, problem is back! How can I get the system to spit more diagnostics messages as to what's happining? Is there a place to turn on debugging messages for devpts? I'm not getting anything in syslog.
So this is happening on your installed Guest OS?
Try version 4.5.2.8848-r2 and see if this fixes your problem.
Fixed! Thanks!
