Hi Nils,
Thanks for your suggestions.
>Wow, you didn't even try to use a virtual terminal? You know: this
>Ctrl+Alt+[F1..F6] thing?
Gee, I didn't know you could use that after starting X.
I just tried it but it appeared to crash X.
I got a terminal with the following error message:
Eterm: Unable to locate desktop window. If you are running Enlightenment,
please restart. If not, please set your background image with Esetroot,
then try again.
I did not get a prompt until I did a Cntl+C. X windows is dead; I cannot
switch back.
Similar things happen if I try to switch virtual terminals with fvwm window
currently selected.
>
>I suggest you to try this, if logging in on a virtual terminal doesn't
>work too, your pseudo terminals are hosed. Let me know if this were the
>case (this should be fixed ASAP -- just in case you would have X problems
>in the future).
Well, it sounds like the ptys are 'hosed' then.
I didn't mention it in my original posting, but I did have problems
originally with xterm sending error message: "no available ptys"
But I finally found a message from Linus Torvalds that explained how to fix
this since old pty files had the wrong major and minor numbers.
I followed his advice and re-created the /dev/pty files, I think, by doing
the following:
/dev/MAKEDEV pty
This got rid of that problem: xterm no longer gives an error message "no
available ptys", but it still will not run.
Any ideas on what else I might try?
Thanks,
greg
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