Strange issue with gitolite on Ubuntu an Debian now...

[sbadia]

root@gitlab:# ssh -i /home/gitlab/.ssh/id_rsa git@localhost
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
***** ABORTING *****
open /etc/gitolite/VERSION failed: No such file or directory at /usr/share/gitolite/gitolite.pm line 125
Connection to localhost closed.
root@gitlab:# ls /home/git/repositories/
gitolite-admin.git testing.git
root@gitlab:# mkdir /etc/gitolite;echo '42' > /etc/gitolite/VERSION
root@gitlab:# ls /home/git/repositories/
gitolite-admin.git testing.git
root@gitlab:# ssh -i /home/gitlab/.ssh/id_rsa git@localhost
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
hello admin, this is gitolite 42 running on git 1.7.10.4
the gitolite config gives you the following access:
R W gitolite-admin
@R_ @W_ testing
Connection to localhost closed.
root@gitlab:# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l
root@gitlab:~#`