Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer:
>>
>>>> What happens if you run xterm?
>>> In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a
>>> command prompt and everything.   I had to install xterm, but on install
>>> I could run xterm and it provides me with a command prompt.
>>
>> so what happens when you start konsole out of xterm? Any messages? Do you find
>> anything in .xsession-errors?
>>
> Starting konsole out of xterm results in the same issue - no prompt.
>
> From .xsession-errors the following related to konsole was provided, but
> I have no idea how to go about fixing this:
>
> konsole(8283)/kdecore (KPty/K3Process) KPty::open: Can't open a pseudo
> teletype
> konsole(8283) Konsole::Pty::flowControlEnabled: Unable to get flow
> control status, terminal not connected.
> konsole(8283) Konsole::Pty::start: Unable to set terminal attributes.

Since reboots don't fix it, it doesn't sound like a starvation issue.
Since your /dev/pts is mounted and seems to have useful permissions,
it doesn't sound like a permissions issue.
Since xterm works, it *definitely* shouldn't be a permissions issue
relating to ptys; I'd expect xterm would have had the same issue.

Still, with the error 'Can't open a pseudo teletype', code and
activity relating to ptys are where I'd keep looking.

If it were me, at this point I'd try running konsole under strace,
direct strace's output to a text file, and then grep that file for
anything relating to /dev/pts, look at the error codes (or
lackthereof, or lack of matching lines), and try figuring things out
from there.

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