[Eug-lug] bad terms

[Rob Hudson]

On 20040430.1146, Bob Miller said ...

> Rob Hudson wrote:
> 
> > I recently got Debian up on my laptop, and X working.  When I try to
> > launch an xterm, however, it dies right away.
> 
> Sounds like pseudo-terminals (ptys) aren't working.  Verify by trying
> some non-X11 programs that require ptys such as ssh (inbound), script
> or screen.  I bet they don't work either.

I can connect to the laptop from my workstation.  Is that what you mean?

> Did you build your own kernel?  Did you include pty support?  Or maybe
> you need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem?

Using Debian's 2.4.25 kernel.  'dmesg' shows "pty: 256 Unix98 ptys
configured".

mount shows: /, /proc, /dev/pts type devpts, /dev/shm type tmpfs, /boot,
/proc/bus/usb type usbfs, /var/lib/noflushd/devfs type devfs