Jonathan Arbib

PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

by on Aug.13, 2010, under Tech Junk

When installing a new virtual machine (Lenny) you may get this error:

PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

stdin: is not a tty

To fix this do the following:

Add the following line to /etc/fstab (in the domU):

none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

Then run:

mkdir /dev/pts
mount /dev/pts

Enjoy!

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