on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:29:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Two weeks ago i installed Mozilla 9.0 with the standard Mozilla installer. > And as this has worked pretty fine, I decided to use also the > installer that comes with Mozilla 9.1 (wich I downloaded from > www.mozilla.org). > > I left the installer do its work and went away. > Some hours afterwards I went back to my PC and started xterm (to read > my mails). Suddently xterm crashed (it didn´t die, it only refused to > accept key strokes or mouse klicks). > > killall xterm and opening a new xterm: same result. > > So I resigned and started konsole. That worked. But when I tried to > start vi, mutt, emacs, .... I only get the same message: "cannot open > console xterm" (or so. I am not at my computer at the moment (its > quite unusable)). > > I swiched to tty1 as root. Similar results. > I can log in but when I try to start any editor I get the same > message: "cannot open console linux" =8-(.
Sounds as if you may have modified either your termcap file or some of your device files. I'd check both against recent backups, and/or boot from a rescue system. You've got both, right? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
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