[9fans] plan9port: 9term won't connect

[9fans] plan9port: 9term won't connect

[Karl Sackett]

I have plan9port installed under Fedora Core 2.  When I run 9term from a bash
shell I get this:

sstbpc65$ 9term
9term: no ptys

The frame of the 9term window opens, then closes as the error message
comes up.  When I run strace on 9term I get this:

...
open("/dev/ptya0", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)  = -1 ENXIO (No such device or
address)
open("/dev/ptya1", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)  = -1 ENXIO (No such device or
address)
open("/dev/ptya2", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)  = -1 ENXIO (No such device or
address)
...
open("/dev/pty80", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/pty90", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
write(2, "9term: no ptys\n", 159term: no ptys
)        = 15
exit_group(0)                           = ?

No ptys?  Nonsense:

sstbpc65$ ls /dev/pty* |wc
    256     256    2816
sstbpc65$ ll /dev/ptya0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty 2, 176 Feb 23  2004 /dev/ptya0
sstbpc65$ ll /dev/ptyzf
crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty 2, 175 Feb 23  2004 /dev/ptyzf

So it's running through all the pty devices and can't find any of them.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?  I have plan9port running on two
Debian machines and I've never encountered this problem before. 

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Karl Sackett                     K4KRS                    krs@hiwaay.net

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