X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_TM,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:51:39 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 From: Mirko Vukovic To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- 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