quoth the Michael Kjorling: > On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as > > Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an > > xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but > > I do not remember the cause. > > Did you make any changes related to pty support?
No. I have: [*] Legacy (BSD) PTY support. and 256 pty* devices in /dev However, I noticed permissions were -rwxrwx--- on the files, owner root, group tty, so I simply added my user to tty group and it works now... I'm looking at my desktop, and I am a member of tty group there. It makes me think that maybe I accidently overwrote /etc/group during an etc-update, but this can't be because all the other groups memberships are still present (ie: video,audio etc). Very odd that this would work before... >hmm... try switching to another virtual console (e.g. <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>), >logging in as your user and running >DISPLAY=:0 konsole Thank you. This is the invocation I was looking for. Hard to start an app from the CLI when you can't get a CLI ;) Thanks for the help both Michael and John, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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