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[70.30.145.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id iv10sm1718782vdb.18.2012.01.01.18.44.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:44:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0119F8.7000101@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:44:08 -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> <3751748.xyDYldPuP9@localhost> <4F0102C0.3040003@gmail.com> <1531982.lOsGQV6ldA@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1531982.lOsGQV6ldA@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6108e99a-f97b-4913-8069-e6c2e8b70206 X-Archives-Hash: 4001115cec215d77130e40f229f519a3 On 01/01/12 20:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: >>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: >>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer >>>>>>> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to >>>>>>>> sending >>>>>>>> my >>>>>>>> first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Colleen >>>>>>> Mysterious thread Colleen. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Possibly the font file itself is messed up? I See you've tried other >>>>>>> things in the Konsole config. Maybe try that? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Settings->Appearance and then near the bottom try changing the font >>>>>>> size, checking and unchecking the Smooth fonts options, and which font >>>>>>> is being used? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Good luck, >>>>>>> Mark >>>>>> it is not font related. the error from xsession-errors is pretty clear. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> #163933 >>>>> I tend to agree Volker. >>>>> >>>>> Collen - on my system the pts entries are part of the tty group: >>>>> >>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -al /dev/pts/ >>>>> total 0 >>>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 07:55 . >>>>> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 5080 Jan 1 15:07 .. >>>>> crw--w---- 1 mark tty 136, 0 Jan 1 09:58 0 >>>>> crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 1 Jan 1 15:23 1 >>>>> crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 2 Jan 1 16:31 2 >>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $ >>>>> >>>>> Yours seemed to be assigned to you as a group and not tty. >>>> Then why would xterm work? >>> because xterm does not touch anything in /dev/pts >>> >>> xterm uses /dev/ptmx >>> konsole uses /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/X >>> now look at the permissions of ptmx and pts/* >>> >>> ls -lh /dev/ptmx >>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2. Jan 01:54 /dev/ptmx >>> >>> and for pts I posted above/look at mark's output. Group setting is >>> important. >> Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device? > chown for the moment, and look at fstab - is there an entry? If not, > /etc/init.d/devfs should do the mounting, does it look like this: > "devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620 devpts" The associated line when you cat /etc/init.d/devfs on my system looks exactly like the line above. > ? > > and what abot /dev/ptmx? > does it look like the line from me or is there some root root stuff going on? > if the later chown that. If I do ls -lh /dev/ptmx, I get this output: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5,2 Jan 1 21:36 ptmx Regards, Colleen > -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org