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 1E2CwV-00056l-Fa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:05:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j78J4Yo3008165; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:04:34 GMT Received: from element.ksp.sk (element.ksp.edi.fmph.uniba.sk [158.195.16.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j78J0uF7014057 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:00:56 GMT Received: from yoyo by element.ksp.sk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1E2Cs8-0005ra-00 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:01:16 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:01:16 +0200 From: YoYo siska To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue Message-ID: <20050808190116.GA1059@ksp.sk> References: <001401c599c5$b7937af0$0c00a8c0@arek> <20050805175237.43578fe3@chi.speakeasy.net> <000b01c59be6$f428dff0$0c00a8c0@arek> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c59be6$f428dff0$0c00a8c0@arek> X-YoYo: 47 X-Exotic-Header-Data: 47/2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: Jozef Siska X-Archives-Salt: 07241a12-facb-4f0a-82ff-ce05f8237390 X-Archives-Hash: 688bd10269c2727302b99daaece628c7 On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Sanders" > To: > 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" 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 -- _ | YoYo () Siska ======================== http://www.ksp.sk/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list