From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DszmG-00050g-Fr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:13:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6E9CCpR026157; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:12:12 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6E96bFs007709 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:06:37 GMT Received: from fe-3a.inet.it ([213.92.5.105]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dszg0-0001OY-M4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:06:40 +0000 Received: from host65-141.pool8248.interbusiness.it [::ffff:82.48.141.65] by fe-3a.inet.it via I-SMTP-5.2.3-520 id ::ffff:82.48.141.65+80iXWM3ExpOI; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:06:40 +0200 From: renna To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] problems with udev Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:07:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507141107.05553.rennadp@katamail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 04067bde-d1d9-4087-b36f-28189971b6ce X-Archives-Hash: f479cd77cc3809d6372d7d1875579448 hi to all i'm having some problems, with, i think, the permissions of /dev/null /dev/console and /dev/zero. every time i boot they're set up to 660, like this crw-rw---- 1 renna root 5, 1 Jul 13 17:04 /dev/console crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/null crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 5 Apr 9 06:31 /dev/zero so when i login as a normal user, i get /dev/null: Permission denied and i have to chmod 666 /dev/null to be able to login in kde furthermore, in kde, when i launch konsole, the window of konsole shows up, but there's only the cursor blinking, and i cannot enter commands - i have to ctrl+alt+fn to a terminal and allways in kde, when i launch a program that requires root's password, as kuser, i get a window with this message The program 'su' is not found; make sure your PATH is set correctly. though su, which is perfectly working in a terminal, is in /bin which IS in my PATH i really don't know if these problems in kde are correlated with the permissions in dev, but on google i found many persons having problems with udev and having more or less the same problems (though i couldn't find a solution to my case). i tried, as explained on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml#doc_chap3 to mknod new null and console in /dev, but when i boot the permissions are again set to 660. does somebody have an idea of what i should do? if there's some information i lacked to give please ask thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list