Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade. [solved]
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:49:28 -0800, darren kirby wrote: 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 ;) Pressing alt-F2 in KDE may work. -- Neil Bothwick One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.
Hello all,
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.
When I start X, all is well, and everything runs as it should, except for term
programs. Eterm hangs there, but instead of a prompt, I get press esc to
exit. konsole and {a,x}term don't even show up, although I suspect they are
just starting then stopping immediately.
I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly as
it was with the old kernel.
Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? If you want to see my config file or
something else just ask.
Thanks,
-d
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:03, darren kirby wrote:
Hello all,
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.
When I start X, all is well, and everything runs as it should, except for
term programs. Eterm hangs there, but instead of a prompt, I get press
esc to exit. konsole and {a,x}term don't even show up, although I
suspect they are just starting then stopping immediately.
I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly
as it was with the old kernel.
Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? If you want to see my config file or
something else just ask.
Thanks,
-d
hmm... try switching to another virtual console (e.g. ctrl+alt+F1),
logging in as your user and running
DISPLAY=:0 konsole
(or replace 'konsole' with whatever term program)
and see if you get any messages
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Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade. [solved]
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 pgpjQnZeYeCzh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:05, Michael Kjorling wrote: 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? He answered that in the OP. On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly as it was with the old kernel. -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgpwY1C9iBcJy.pgp Description: PGP signature
