On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:57:30 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> 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 ?

It sounds like your udev rules are screwed. My defaults are

KERNEL=="pty[pqrstuvwxyzabcdef][0123456789abcdef]",NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",OPTIONS="last_rule"
KERNEL=="null",NAME="%k", MODE="0666"

Re-emerging udev should fix this, let etc-update/dispatch-conf replace
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.


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Neil Bothwick

"You want us to do WHAT?" - Ancient Chinese wall engineer.