The slink -> potato saga continued (Chapter X): Doing xinit on my upgraded potato system yields an xterm without fonts, that is, where the characters should be, there are just colored boxes. However, the messages from the X server all look reasonable; the font path is shown as: (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
Then, after a Ctrl-D exits the xterm and kills the X server, these messages appear: Cannot chown /dev/pts/0 to 0,0: No such file or directory Cannot chown /dev/ptyxx to 0,0: No such file or directory Doing ls -l /dev/pts/0 yields: crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 0 Nov 7 05:45 /dev/pts/0 while ls -l /dev/ptyxx yields: ls: /dev/ptyxx: No such file or directory The system context for these problems is a potato system upgraded as of today, with X, xfs, xterm, et al, of vintage 3.3.5-1, and a Linux kernel 2.2.13, whose .config includes the entries: CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y Before upgrading, the system was a slink one, using X fonts 3.3.2.3a-11 and active X software 3.3.3.1-2 from netgod; all that worked fine. Any thoughts? Keith
