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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:51:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
From: Mirko Vukovic <mirko DOT vukovic AT gmail DOT com>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to ssh to git AT github DOT com, and I get the error
> "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0"
>
> I tried ssh -vv ..., but did not see anything meaningful.
>
> googling I found references to devices ptmx and pts.
>
> There is a /dev/ptmx. =A0I can see it if I do ls /dev/ptmx but not if I
> do ls /dev =A0(why?).
>
> I also tried mount /dev/pts (as shown on google), but it failed
> because /etc/fstab
> does not have a corresponding entry.
>
> Am I going in the right direction, or something else the problem?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mirko
>

Oh, and this is from the mintty terminal.

Mirko

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