Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

[Arek Murzyn <admin@haldon.pl>]

YoYo siska wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote:
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>>----- 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
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>>>On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200
>>>"Arek Murzyn" <admin@haldon.pl> wrote:
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>>>>I've done something recently on my gentoo and I don't remember what but
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>>till
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>>>>that moment I cannot run Eterm or xterm when logged as user. When logged
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>>>>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.
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>>>Did you use Unix98 PTY or Legacy (BSD) Pty?
>>>Also, are you using udev?
>>>And you have Virtual terminal?
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>>>fwiw - I haven't seen it here with Unix98 ptys, udev, and 2.6.12-r4.
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>>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?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Arek
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>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
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>after etc-update and a reboot with the new udev config all was well
>again...
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Thanks, could you send me your config file when ude is working?

Br,

Arek
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