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[70.30.145.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h9sm89401193qac.13.2012.01.01.17.01.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:01:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0101D0.9020000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:01:04 -0500 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111126 Thunderbird/8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue References: <4F00B505.6050908@gmail.com> <2891159.89DfyLntTe@localhost> <4F00F5F1.7020408@gmail.com> <10301883.pLQqNdQDRb@localhost> In-Reply-To: <10301883.pLQqNdQDRb@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8c6754bc-99a5-40e8-9209-0460058f8219 X-Archives-Hash: 9fae19da7bbb15635694cd2a6ed96adf On 01/01/12 19:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:10:25 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 01/01/12 18:48, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 18:20:55 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>> On 01/01/12 18:06, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 17:36:02 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>>>> On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>>>>>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >>>>>>>>> What happens if you run xterm? >>>>>>>> In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a >>>>>>>> command prompt and everything. I had to install xterm, but on install >>>>>>>> I could run xterm and it provides me with a command prompt. >>>>>>> so what happens when you start konsole out of xterm? Any messages? Do >>>>>>> you >>>>>>> find anything in .xsession-errors? >>>>>> Starting konsole out of xterm results in the same issue - no prompt. >>>>>> >>>>>> From .xsession-errors the following related to konsole was provided, >>>>>> but >>>>>> I have no idea how to go about fixing this: >>>>>> >>>>>> konsole(8283)/kdecore (KPty/K3Process) KPty::open: Can't open a pseudo >>>>>> teletype >>>>>> konsole(8283) Konsole::Pty::flowControlEnabled: Unable to get flow >>>>>> control status, terminal not connected. >>>>>> konsole(8283) Konsole::Pty::start: Unable to set terminal attributes. >>>>> Bingo. >>>>> >>>>> well, check that /dev/pts is mounted. Did you have any consolekit, >>>> udev, dbus >>>> >>>>> updates? Are the permissions set correctly? have you recompiled kdelibs? >>>>> >>>>> But this is exactly your problem - google for it. >>>> No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sending >>>> my first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. >>> is consolekit still running? does the problem persist after a reboot? >> Since my last response, I have checked that /dev/pts is mounted and it >> is. The console-kit-daemon appears to be running. I checked >> permissions of /dev/pts - they look okay, but I'm not sure what they >> should be because I've never had an issue like this before. This is >> what they are: >> >> total 0 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 17:06 . >> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4680 Jan 1 17:07 .. >> crw------- 1 colleen colleen 136, 0 Jan 1 19:07 0 >> > > should look like this: > ls -hl /dev/pts > insgesamt 0 > crw--w---- 1 tty 136, 0 30. Dez 21:37 0 > crw------- 1 tty 136, 1 2. Jan 01:20 1 > crw------- 1 tty 136, 2 1. Jan 21:15 2 > crw------- 1 tty 136, 3 1. Jan 23:19 3 > crw------- 1 tty 136, 4 1. Jan 21:31 4 > > so the question is, where did it get borked. To clear something up, what did > you emerge in the time before this happend? Also, useflags for kdelibs please. I didn't emerge anything before this happened. Use flags for kdelibs are as follows: -3dnow +acl +alsa -bindist +bzip -debug -doc -fam +handbook -jpeg2k -kerberos -lzma +mmx +nls -openexr +opengl +policykit -semantic-desktop -spell +sse +sse2 +ssl -test +udev +udisks +upower -zeroconf > > > > I also tried googling, but haven't found anything that made any sense to me. > > try googling pts permissions. > > When you cat mtab, do you find something like this: > /etc/mtab: > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > > is the devfs initscript run? does it look ok? > (having this: > devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620 devpts This is the output from "cating" mtab: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0 /dev/sda3 / ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 rc-svcdir /lib64/rc/init.d tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/sda4 /home ext3 rw,noatime,commit=0 0 0 Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org