my mc doesn't start any more...

Pavel S. Shirshov me at pavelsh.pp.ru
Mon Feb 21 19:12:20 UTC 2005


Hello /dev/rob0,

Monday, February 21, 2005, 10:33:04 PM, you wrote:

>> maurizio:~$ mc
>> subshell.c: read (subshell_pty...): Unknown error: 0

dr> This is only a guess, but maybe you are out of PTY's. This can happen
dr> over time when some process opens but doesn't close a PTY, or in other
dr> situations where you simply have more PTY's open than your OS supports.

dr> You'll probably do better taking this to a FreeBSD forum. If you want
dr> to take the easy way out and get it working without fixing the problem,
dr> reboot. :)

dirty way
$ killall -CONT bash

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 Pavel                            mailto:me at pavelsh.pp.ru




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