Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if `gnuserv' was doing this, however... I exited Emacs-20.2 > and it asked whether to kill a running process (with it doesn't usually do > for gnuserv). I did. After that `rxvt' and `xterm' worked correctly!
Emacs will use a pty to communicate with some other programs as well as gnuserv. Next time it happens, you could try M-x list-processes in Emacs, and (as root): # fuser -v /dev/tty[pqrs]* The latter will list which processes have which ptys open. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .