At 22:22 +0000 2000-03-08, root wrote: >I installed Debian yesterday, all went pretty well, except for this >little problem. When I try to start an xterm, kvt or konsole as non-root >I get an error saying can't open a psuedo teletype. All other programs >work fine. > >demilk:~# su AArthur -c "konsole" >Can't open a psuedo teletype >demilk:~# > >All of the /dev/ttyp* are a+rw, o+rw, g+rw. > >Other then that also seems to be working pretty good, although not being >able to access x terminal windows is surely annoying.
Please strace one of those and send the output. As a hunch, however, ls -l /dev/ptmx and ls -ld /dev/pts. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
