screen - not enough PTYs Debian 6

[futureawesome]

Hi

I've been trying to find a solution to this problem. I'm currently got a fresh image of Debian 6 32bit on my vps. Everything was fine except I can't get screen to work.

I've checked the permissions on the /dev they all have read/write permission

:~$ ls -l /dev/ptmx
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Jul 31 07:35 /dev/ptmx
:~$ ls -l /dev/pty*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  0 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  1 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  2 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  3 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  4 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp4
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  5 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp5
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  6 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp6
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  7 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp7
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  8 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp8
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2,  9 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp9
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 10 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptypa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 11 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptypb
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 12 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptypc
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 13 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptypd
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 14 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptype
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 15 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptypf

My vps is an OpenVZ so I checked if my provider limited my PTY sessions

numpty is set to like 500000 some absurd number. I've only had 3 ssh sessions going before.

Anyone face this situation on a Debian openvz vps?

futureawesome Reviewed by futureawesome on 31st Jul 2012. screen - not enough PTYs Debian 6 Hi I've been trying to find a solution to this problem. I'm currently got a fresh image of Debian 6 32bit on my vps. Everything was fine except I can't get screen to work. I've checked the permissions on the /dev they all have read/write permission :~$ ls -l /dev/ptmx crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Jul 31 07:35 /dev/ptmx :~$ ls -l /dev/pty* crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 0 Jul 31 01:19 /dev/ptyp0 Rating: 5