Knowledgebase: Virtual Private Servers
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Cannot allocate tty, pty and /dev/ issues on OpenVZ
Posted by Chris E, Last modified by on 01 March 2010 02:48 PM
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What causes this? -------------------- OpenVZ is incompatible with the Udevd daemon which populates the "special files" in /dev/. If you install udev either on purpose or by accident as part of an upgrade, you might be unable to SSH in or have a number of strange issues. How can I fix this? --------------------- Login to your VPS via console access, and run the following to recreate null, random, tty and pty devices: /bin/rm -rf /dev/null /bin/rm -rf /dev/random /bin/rm -rf /dev/tty* /bin/rm -rf /dev/pty* /bin/mknod /dev/null c 1 3 /bin/mknod /dev/random c 1 8 /sbin/MAKEDEV tty /sbin/MAKEDEV pty If this still hasn't fixed your issue, please open a support ticket. | |
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