Create User Task completed with errors

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

Hi Tobias,

@dhuron

Failed to get machine PTY: No such file or directory

This error often occurs when some hanging process wasn’t closed during SSH sessions logout (for instance tail commands…). It seems to be related to how systemd-run allocates terminals.

A reboot could resolve it. If not possible the following command can help to list, search (and kill) hanging sessions manually

loginctl

We had similar issues in the past:

Search results for '"Failed to get machine PTY"' - NethServer Community

Here is @giacomo’s reply to a similar one:

Error when I create a new user

You probably have an open session to nsdc container. Verify it with: loginctl and: systemctl status Then, terminate relevant root session: loginctl kill-session <id> If you want to terminate all root sessions: loginctl terminate-user root Then, you can try to recreate the user.