[gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

[gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

[darren kirby]

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Hello all,

I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, and 
many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I seem 
to recall this happening to me years ago, but I do not remember the cause.

When I start X, all is well, and everything runs as it should, except for term 
programs. Eterm hangs there, but instead of a prompt, I get "press <esc> to 
exit". konsole and {a,x}term don't even show up, although I suspect they are 
just starting then stopping immediately.

I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly as 
it was with the old kernel.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? If you want to see my config file or 
something else just ask.

Thanks,
-d
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

[John Myers]

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On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:03, darren kirby wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg,
> and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I
> seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but I do not remember the
> cause.
>
> When I start X, all is well, and everything runs as it should, except for
> term programs. Eterm hangs there, but instead of a prompt, I get "press
> <esc> to exit". konsole and {a,x}term don't even show up, although I
> suspect they are just starting then stopping immediately.
>
> I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly
> as it was with the old kernel.
>
> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? If you want to see my config file or
> something else just ask.
>
> Thanks,
> -d
hmm... try switching to another virtual console (e.g. <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>), 
logging in as your user and running 

DISPLAY=:0 konsole

(or replace 'konsole' with whatever term program)

and see if you get any messages
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

[Michael Kjorling]

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On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, bulliver@badcomputer.org wrote:
> I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as
> Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an
> xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but
> I do not remember the cause.

Did you make any changes related to pty support?
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade. [solved]

[darren kirby]

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quoth the Michael Kjorling:
> On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, bulliver@badcomputer.org wrote:
> > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as
> > Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an
> > xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but
> > I do not remember the cause.
>
> Did you make any changes related to pty support?

No. I have:
[*] Legacy (BSD) PTY support.

and 256 pty* devices in /dev

However, I noticed permissions were -rwxrwx--- on the files, owner root, group 
tty, so I simply added my user to tty group and it works now...

I'm looking at my desktop, and I am a member of tty group there. It makes me 
think that maybe I accidently overwrote /etc/group during an etc-update, but 
this can't be because all the other groups memberships are still present (ie: 
video,audio etc). Very odd that this would work before...

>hmm... try switching to another virtual console (e.g. <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>), 
>logging in as your user and running 

>DISPLAY=:0 konsole

Thank you. This is the invocation I was looking for. Hard to start an app from 
the CLI when you can't get a CLI ;)

Thanks for the help both Michael and John,
-d
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

[John Myers]

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On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:05, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, bulliver@badcomputer.org wrote:
> > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as
> > Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an
> > xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but
> > I do not remember the cause.
>
> Did you make any changes related to pty support?

He answered that in the OP.

On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, bulliver@badcomputer.org wrote:
> I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly
> as it was with the old kernel.
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade. [solved]

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:49:28 -0800, darren kirby wrote:

> Thank you. This is the invocation I was looking for. Hard to start an
> app from the CLI when you can't get a CLI ;)

Pressing alt-F2 in KDE may work.


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