Unable to allocate tty?

[Wes Shull]

Vicky Staubly <vicky at steeds.com> wrote:

> once in a while, I'll log in via ssh only to be told that
> it couldn't allocate a tty.

Could be related to 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127048

and the other bugs referenced in comments on that one.  Never did see any 
official explanation, but the problem seems to have gone away with newer 
kernel builds.

--wes