The problem seems to to be limited to Gnome
terminal emulation windows. I can open a KDE
terminal emulation window just fine.
kelly
Quoting Marco Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Backup first! This could be dangerous...
You can start verifying your packages. Do a 'man rpm', and read through it.
I think a 'rpm -Va' will check your entire system, so you would want to
redirect that to a file, and go through that.
If you didn't play with permissions, you'll be able to see what files have
changed in size, and then you can try probably a 'rpm -Uvh' for the
packages. The 'U' should keep any config files.
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Scroggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: Terminal Emulation error
> I've committed stupidity. Please don't beat me up
> too much... even though I deserve it.
>
> I've been experimenting with different security
> settings and locked myself out of the gnome
> terminal window. Even worse, I don't really know
> which setting I changed that produced the problem.
> I know, I should only changed one thing at a time.
>
> I've recovered everything except the terminal
> emulator windows. When I open one, it just
> disappears. At least gnome gives an error.
>
> Here's the error :
> -------- --------- --------- ------- ----------
> There has been an error while trying to
> log in.
>
> If you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x,
> this is probably due to incorrectly setting up
> Unix98 ptys.
>
> Please read Linux/Documentation/Changes for how to
> correctly set them up.
> -------- --------- --------- ------- ----------
>
> I've searched my entire system looking for the
> documentation refered to by the error message, but
> I've not found it.
>
> Does anyone know how I can fix it?
>
> I can run X (via startx), and all the gui stuff, I
> can log into a regular terminal before running X
> (startx), obviously.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Feeling stupid.... But hey, one doesn't
> experiment one doesn't learn. ...right? ;-)
>
> kelly
>
>
>
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