[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Problem with Lenny image

[Steve Kemp]

On Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 20:33:15 -0800, Steve Rippl wrote:

> So, that said, I'm running Xen 3.2 on Lenny, using the Debian stable 
> packages, along with the deb package for xen-tools (3.9-4).  

  (The latest release of xen-tools is 4.1-0, get it from Debian sid,
 or from here:
    http://apt.steve.org.uk/etch/pool/main/x/xen-tools/ )

> PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
> stdin: is not a tty
> 
> So I poke around the logs and first /etc/default/locale is not there, so 
> I create it, and then there's no /dev/pts, so I mkdir /dev/pts and mount 
> devpts /dev/pts -t devpts and now ssh works!

  Nothing about /etc/default/locale rings any bells, but the /dev/pts
 being missing is a bug, and one that has been fixed since 3.9-4.

> I saw a previous mention of this around CentOS DomUs (I think), but it 
> seemed to imply it had been fixed in xen-tools...

  Initially it was fixed just for CentOS, now it is fixed for all.

Steve
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