On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Eterm wants enlightenment to set the background so that it can do its
"pseudo" trasnparence thing.
> >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?
Yeah:
Add this line to /etc/fstab (it is needed for Unix98 style ptys):
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
Mount it as root:
mount /dev/pts
Be happy.
Nils
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