sshd udev & pty...

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:04:30PM -0800, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>    I have a buildroot created filesystem. Most everything works great,
> however when I try to ssh into the machine I get the password prompt but
> when it attempts to open a pty (which I don't know what that is really)
> it fails with the message:
> error: openpty: No such file or directory
> error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed
> 
> Now I have my dev using udev. I have /dev/pts mounted and it has the
> same 0-5 entries that my development machine has. It has a bunch of
> other /dev/pty... things. What is it missing? I did a strings on sshd to
> see if it was a hard coded dev entry, which it isn't. 

when you say you have /dev/pts mounted, do you mean you have the 'devpts'
filesystem mounted on /dev/pts ?
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts

you should also check to see if you have /dev/ptmx ...
-mike