X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 02:04:44 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Message-ID: <20110301070444.GA21730@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4D6C541C.9050905@cpan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:33:36PM -0500, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rafael Kitover <...> wrote: >> On 2/28/2011 8:51 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am trying to ssh to git@github.com, and I get the error >>>> "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0" >> ... >> >> That message is coming from github.com, it does not allow opening >> interactive sessions. You can only use it for git. > >I don't think so. That command works from me from a linux box. > >Futhermore, this ssh connection is documented here: >http://help.github.com/msysgit-key-setup/ > >It is used to test the login to the github.com account. > >Finally, this command used to work on cygwin a couple of weeks ago. I >looked into >OpenSSH readme's and ChangeLog and nothing jumped out. > >I tried both the current 5.8p1-1 and previous ssh (5.6p1-2). Same problem. How about starting here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html ? The reference to "msysgit" above makes me wonder if there is a non-cygwin program in the mix and the information requested at that URL would help clarify that. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple