[Lxc-users] "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 - stdin: is not a tty"

Tue Nov 29 16:05:35 UTC 2011

On Tue 2011-11-29 (09:40), Patrick Kevin McCaffrey wrote:

> allows me to SSH into my running container.  However, lxc-console is
> still unresponsive.  When I run the command ("lxc-console -n
> container_name") it says "press ctrl+a q to exit" but anything I do after
> entering the initial command doesn't do anything.  The terminal still
> lets me type, but lxc-console doesn't appear to work.

Is there a getty or login shell running on /dev/tty1 ?

Do you have /etc/init/tty*.conf ?

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