On 2012-07-20 23:29, Michael S. Zick wrote: > Could it be that you don't have /dev/pts mounted on the troublesome machine? It's properly mounted on both machines, the mount command shows exactly the same entries on working vs. non-working guests: $ mount /dev/hdv1 on / type ufs (defaults) none on /proc type proc (defaults) none on /tmp type tmpfs (size=10240m,mode=1777) none on /dev/pts type devpts (gid=5,mode=620) Here are a list of all devices on both systems: lenny01: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 fd -> ../proc/self/fd crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 full srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 log crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 ptmx drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 pts crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 random drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 shm crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 tty crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 urandom prw-r----- 1 root adm 0 xconsole crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 zero squeeze01: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 core -> /proc/kcore lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 fd -> /proc/self/fd crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 full prw------- 1 root root 0 initctl srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 log crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 ptmx drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 pts lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 ram -> ram1 crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 8 random drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 shm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 stderr -> fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 stdin -> fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 stdout -> fd/1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 tty crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 urandom prw-r----- 1 root adm 0 xconsole crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 zero thanks, - Markus