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From: etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: "Object is not locked by this process" error telneting to apollo.
Keywords: telnet pty crpty
Message-ID: <16541@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 18:35:31 GMT
References: <1991Feb08.235302.i@>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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I haven't seen that particular message, but I rarely use Aegis.
However, the password reading problem is typical of the apollo
corrupted pseudo tty syndrome. This is well known, and has
a simple (usually) fix and workaround.

You need to rebuild the pseudo tty devices in /dev. Kick off
everybody who is rlogged in or telnetting, so that all the
ptys are inactive. That means you must perform the fix from the
console or a crp shell.

Delete all the ptys in /dev. I use the unix command rm *typ*.
Then make new ptys using /etc/crpty. If that doesn't do it,
try again. I have, on occasion, had to reboot the bloody thing
to make it take effect.

You can use mkdev instead of crpty, I think. I suspect crpty is
just a link or a script involving mkdev anyway.

Some people run this periodically as a cron job, as preventive
maintenance.

Hope that helps,

Eric Bushnell
UW Civil Engr
etb@zeus.ce.washington.edu
etb@milton.u.washington.edu