Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

[YoYo siska <yoyko@mailbox.sk>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Sanders" <rmsand@concentric.net>
> To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200
> > "Arek Murzyn" <admin@haldon.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > I've done something recently on my gentoo and I don't remember what but
> till
> > > that moment I cannot run Eterm or xterm when logged as user. When logged
> as
> > > root everything is working. This issue is known on the web but solutions
> > > does not satisfy me Eterm.
> > > There are messages:
> > > "Can't open pseudo-tty --No such file or directory"
> > > "Unable to run sub-command"
> > > Then Eterm window raises and there is only "Hit any key to exit"
> > > I checked:
> > > - /dev/pty is compiled in kernel
> > > - /dev/pty directory exists and all files within
> > > - symbolic links in /dev exists too
> > > - changed rights to all these files to rwxrwxrwx - nothing helped
> > > 2.6.12r6, 2005.0
> > > What can I do more? Changin debugging level in Eterm gives nothing.
> > >
> >
> > Did you use Unix98 PTY or Legacy (BSD) Pty?
> > Also, are you using udev?
> > And you have Virtual terminal?
> >
> > fwiw - I haven't seen it here with Unix98 ptys, udev, and 2.6.12-r4.
> 
> I use udev and Legacy(BSD) with 2.6.12-r6. How to check if I use virtual
> terminal?
> How to switch to Unix98 - I can't find this option in menuconfig.
> Very strange is that root can open eterm without problems, any user (even
> with additional group 'root') can't.
> I see some messages in logs about pam authentication. Could it be related to
> that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arek
> 
> 

I had such a problem after an upgrade of udev. I didn't run etc-update
and with the old config udev just made the ptys with wrong permissions

after etc-update and a reboot with the new udev config all was well
again...

yoyo

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