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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gdm-2.2.3.2: comments
From: "Tod M. Neidt" <tneidt@fidnet.com>
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Date: Mon Sep 17 16:49:01 2001
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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