On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:51:36AM +0100, Michael J Tauber wrote: > In the next step I found out that both > > /dev/null > /dev/urandom > > had no read / write permission for others. > > Consequently, startx worked now but only for root. > > Next, I changed manually the permissions for /dev/null and /dev/urandom to > rw for others. Now, I could run startx as a plain user. > > However, when I tried to start a x-term I got an error message that "no > pty devices are available". I looked into /dev and into ./dev and found > out, that there were no pty devices. > > At this point, it was clear to me that there is a general problem with > devices.
Seems like a udev problem and not a hal problem. > > Consequently, I deinastalled hal, installed gdm .... That's odd.. > > and everything worked fine again. > > I had hal running since months, I am updating sarge regulary and I had no > problems before the yesterday update. Just updated a desktop machine here in the house running sarge. No problems there. Can you install hal again and see if the problem happens again ? If that's the case please run ``udevtest /sys/class/mem/null'' and see what that outputs ? Sjoerd -- No people are all bad, just as none are all good. Tecumseh, (Shawnee) to his nephew Spemica Lawba 1790 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
