Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

[Arek Murzyn <admin@haldon.pl>]

Arek Murzyn wrote:

> YoYo siska wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ----- 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200
>>>> "Arek Murzyn" <admin@haldon.pl> 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...
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks, could you send me your config file when ude is working?
>
> Br,
>
> Arek

It worked (there has not been done etc-update after udev upgrade).

Arek
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