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From: "Tod M. Neidt" <tneidt@fidnet.com>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gdm-2.2.3.2: comments
Date: Mon Sep 17 16:49:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1000749105.438.6.camel@Q.neidt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15j5gY-0000E8-00@cvs.gentoo.org>

On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 21:11, tneidt@mail.fidnet.com wrote:
> 
> 
> After these changes gdm starts up fine.  One problem remains.  gnome-terminal 
> refuses to open with an error about checking unix98 ptys.  Note everything 
> gnome and specifically gnome-terminal was working perfectly when I was using 
> startx from the command-line prior to merging gdm.  Also, I can start up a 
> regular xterm fine although it doesn't read my .bashrc file.
> 
Hi!

Follow-up with more information.

1.If I xhost +localhost in an xterm as user then su to root, I can start
up a gnome-terminal ok, so it seems to be a permissions problem.

2. Confirmed that /dev/ptmx has the correct permissions.

tod




  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-17 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-17 15:13 [gentoo-dev] gdm-2.2.3.2: comments tneidt
2001-09-17 16:49 ` Tod M. Neidt [this message]
2001-09-18 17:08   ` Tod M. Neidt
2001-09-17 17:40 ` Mikael Hallendal

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