Re: No more ptys!

Hi Gabriel,

> >>I'm playing around with 2 bluetooth dongle, under linux (me:Debian and 
> >>other:Mandrake), trying rfcomm, hciattach, things like that.
> >>I do that using 'screen' commands.
> >>After a will, I cannot create more screen: "no more pty", says screen!
> >>I user kernel 2.6.8.1, bluez-utils 2.9-3
> > 
> > 
> > this is actually not a Bluetooth problem.
> 
> This only append when I play with BT. It never appended before.
> Few hours before, I played with about 10 screen session with no problem.
> Then I reduced the number of screen sessions, played with BT, tried to 
> open one more screen, then it failed!
> I looked at /dev/pts: there were the number of opened screen session, no 
> more, no less.
> I closes everything but X, then it worked again.
> I conclued with a memory problem (Mozilla, Thunderbird and OOo where 
> open, and my computer is a small computer)
> Day after, played again with BT, with not that much things opened (ie: 
> no ram problems, a priori)
> Same problem arrived: no more ttys.
> Time to reboot...

check the kernel mailing list, because this can't be a Bluetooth
problem. There was a memory related to PTYs so you may wanna check out a
newer kernel.

Regards

Marcel




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