I doubt that it is the cause of your situation, but I had this problem
when I moved the pseudo tty's to their new numbers (tty[pqr<etc>]*)
without realizing that I had to move the master ttys to their new numbers
as well (pty*). (I was young and stupid, okay? :-)
Mike
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