Kevin Oberman <oberman(a)es.net&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... Whee. That does the trick. ... Very good. ... O.K. What flavor of ptys are you using? The `expect' binary someone built here is broken because it assumes the wrong kind, I believe. Perhaps this is an aspect of the same problem? The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more. while executing "spawn ../g10/gpg --no-batch --quick-random --homedir . --gen-key" FAIL: genkey1024.test I have `pseudo-device pty 255' in my kernel config file and there are only a handful of ptys currently in use. The -lc problem was fixed another way in 0.9.7.