[Eug-lug] bad terms

[Cory Petkovsek]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:32:55PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> 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.


Please post it.  "looks like" isn't good enough.

    $ strace xterm -display :0  2>&1 >xterm.log
 
Also what does `ls -l /dev/pts` show. 

I see that you are running devfs, but you don't have /dev mounted on devfs
(according to what you posted).  Did you include devfs support in the kernel?
Are you on a 2.6 kernel?  Did you include these (for either 2.6 or 2.4):
- Device Drivers -> Character devices -> Unix98 PTY Support
- File systems -> Pseudo filesystems -> /dev file system support (OBSOLETE)
- File systems -> Pseudo filesystems -> /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs
Did you enable ""Automatically mount at boot" for /devfs?  If not and it really
isn't mounted, what if you mount it.  "mount -t devfs /dev" or somthing.

$ dmesg|egrep -i "(devfs|pty)"
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Mounted devfs on /dev

$ mount|grep devfs
none on /dev type devfs (rw)

What about the devfsd.conf configuration of ptys?

Cory


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