[Eug-lug] bad terms

[Rob Hudson]

I see the 1st 2 lines and I have an xterm waiting for me when I
Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to the X window.  It's as root.

If I do it as my user I get what looks like the last 4 lines of your
output, and no xterm.

On 20040430.1458, Bob Miller said ...

> Rob Hudson wrote:
> 
> > Any clues on why I can't get a terminal in X?
> 
> Do this (from a framebuffer console or from an ssh session).  See how
> your output differs from mine.
> 
> $ sudo strace xterm -display :0 2>&1 | grep pts
> statfs("/dev/pts", {f_type="DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=1024, f_blocks=0, f_bfree=0, f_files=0, f_ffree=0, f_namelen=255}) = 0
> stat64("/dev/pts/11", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 11), ...}) = 0
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\367\5\0\0pts/3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\370\5\0\0pts/2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\371\5\0\0pts/4\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\373\5\0\0pts/5\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\374\5\0\0pts/6\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\365\5\0\0pts/0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\366\5\0\0pts/1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0O\6\0\0pts/7\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\355`\0\0pts/8\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\10\0\0\0~P\0\0pts/9\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> read(4, "\7\0\0\0\372,\0\0pts/11\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> write(4, "\10\0\0\0\372,\0\0pts/11\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 384) = 384
> chmod("/dev/pts/11", 0666)              = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
> -- 
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