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"out of pty devices" on Centos 7

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
centos, python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing poetry shell after installing Poetry with the Linux installer on CentOS 7 and Python 3.11, then determine whether the failure belongs to the installer or Poetry's shell command. Done means identifying the responsible component and documenting or verifying a fix for the "out of pty devices" error.

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Description

Environment

I installed poetry on Centos 7 using the linux installer and python 3.11.

Behaviour

After installation, poetry --version returned "Poetry (version 1.8.2)".
poetry install ran successfully on my project.

However, subsequent usage of poetry shell return an error: "out of pty devices"

Expected behaviour

Since sysctl kernel.pty.nr showed only one active pty session, poetry should not have run out of pty devices.

Dominant language
Python
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Merged PRs (30d)
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