Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:57:30AM +0000, Penguin Lover James squawked:
> Well I found a temporary work around, but it does not solve
> the problem.
> 
> When the system boots and gives me the kdm login screen, I have to
> first ssh remotely and run these commands
> 
> chown root:tty /dev/pty*
> chown root:tty /dev/tty*
> chmod 666 /dev/null
> 
> I'd sure like to know what to remerge to fix this problem.
> hal ? udev ?
> 

If you are running udev, check
  /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions

it should have lines like 
  tty:root:tty:0666
  tty[0-9]*:root:tty:0660
and
  null:root:root:0666
  zero:root:root:0666

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