From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhWYo-0005Re-Kg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:19:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FE8721C21A; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 01:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38F521C036 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 01:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekd41 with SMTP id d41so15030812eek.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:18:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=GY7pB6ymmEVkF9zJUNKQtP00nLqP6NuHwC3KWXDFn0s=; b=PSoTKIGv9TRLUu6QKhKZ0GTwOlw9783uu22LwXf8OlZ2UkMYR8YhcAIe/vx3jRI6Eh 9AKRg11RV+ZhmIGynehjLd1oVFlfj0W7kQzbXPqGKLVnftMVdPQddaChWXh0xN67rcUC RHugAeWD56ZbSazILMBJ1d196gnzT/+EnTFaI= Received: by 10.213.16.78 with SMTP id n14mr9382367eba.92.1325467098928; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC6074F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.7.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t1sm184532338eeb.3.2012.01.01.17.18.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:18:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1531982.lOsGQV6ldA@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.8 rc1 (Linux/3.0.7; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4F0102C0.3040003@gmail.com> References: <4F00B505.6050908@gmail.com> <3751748.xyDYldPuP9@localhost> <4F0102C0.3040003@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 8077e581-e71b-41ac-a779-87a7e51f7b74 X-Archives-Hash: baa84df271ef0e6e349b0d59fbb50a81 Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: > On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: > >> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: > >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer > >>>>> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to > >>>>>> sending > >>>>>> my > >>>>>> first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Colleen > >>>>> > >>>>> Mysterious thread Colleen. > >>>>> > >>>>> Possibly the font file itself is messed up? I See you've tried other > >>>>> things in the Konsole config. Maybe try that? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Settings->Appearance and then near the bottom try changing the font > >>>>> size, checking and unchecking the Smooth fonts options, and which font > >>>>> is being used? > >>>>> > >>>>> Good luck, > >>>>> Mark > >>>> > >>>> it is not font related. the error from xsession-errors is pretty clear. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> #163933 > >>> > >>> I tend to agree Volker. > >>> > >>> Collen - on my system the pts entries are part of the tty group: > >>> > >>> mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -al /dev/pts/ > >>> total 0 > >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 07:55 . > >>> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 5080 Jan 1 15:07 .. > >>> crw--w---- 1 mark tty 136, 0 Jan 1 09:58 0 > >>> crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 1 Jan 1 15:23 1 > >>> crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 2 Jan 1 16:31 2 > >>> mark@c2stable ~ $ > >>> > >>> Yours seemed to be assigned to you as a group and not tty. > >> > >> Then why would xterm work? > > > > because xterm does not touch anything in /dev/pts > > > > xterm uses /dev/ptmx > > konsole uses /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/X > > now look at the permissions of ptmx and pts/* > > > > ls -lh /dev/ptmx > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2. Jan 01:54 /dev/ptmx > > > > and for pts I posted above/look at mark's output. Group setting is > > important. > Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? chown for the moment, and look at fstab - is there an entry? If not, /etc/init.d/devfs should do the mounting, does it look like this: "devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620 devpts" ? and what abot /dev/ptmx? does it look like the line from me or is there some root root stuff going on? if the later chown that. -- #163933