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From: Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:45:26
Message-Id: 4F0119F8.7000101@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 01/01/12 20:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer:
3 >> On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 >>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol:
5 >>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
7 >>>>>
8 >>>>> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
9 >>>>>> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht:
10 >>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer
11 >>>>>>> <colleen.beamer@×××××.com>
12 >>>>>>> wrote: <SNIP>
13 >>>>>>>
14 >>>>>>>> No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to
15 >>>>>>>> sending
16 >>>>>>>> my
17 >>>>>>>> first message. Will trying googling. Thanks.
18 >>>>>>>>
19 >>>>>>>>
20 >>>>>>>> Colleen
21 >>>>>>> Mysterious thread Colleen.
22 >>>>>>>
23 >>>>>>> Possibly the font file itself is messed up? I See you've tried other
24 >>>>>>> things in the Konsole config. Maybe try that?
25 >>>>>>>
26 >>>>>>>
27 >>>>>>> Settings->Appearance and then near the bottom try changing the font
28 >>>>>>> size, checking and unchecking the Smooth fonts options, and which font
29 >>>>>>> is being used?
30 >>>>>>>
31 >>>>>>> Good luck,
32 >>>>>>> Mark
33 >>>>>> it is not font related. the error from xsession-errors is pretty clear.
34 >>>>>>
35 >>>>>> --
36 >>>>>> #163933
37 >>>>> I tend to agree Volker.
38 >>>>>
39 >>>>> Collen - on my system the pts entries are part of the tty group:
40 >>>>>
41 >>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -al /dev/pts/
42 >>>>> total 0
43 >>>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 07:55 .
44 >>>>> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 5080 Jan 1 15:07 ..
45 >>>>> crw--w---- 1 mark tty 136, 0 Jan 1 09:58 0
46 >>>>> crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 1 Jan 1 15:23 1
47 >>>>> crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 2 Jan 1 16:31 2
48 >>>>> mark@c2stable ~ $
49 >>>>>
50 >>>>> Yours seemed to be assigned to you as a group and not tty.
51 >>>> Then why would xterm work?
52 >>> because xterm does not touch anything in /dev/pts
53 >>>
54 >>> xterm uses /dev/ptmx
55 >>> konsole uses /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/X
56 >>> now look at the permissions of ptmx and pts/*
57 >>>
58 >>> ls -lh /dev/ptmx
59 >>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2. Jan 01:54 /dev/ptmx
60 >>>
61 >>> and for pts I posted above/look at mark's output. Group setting is
62 >>> important.
63 >> Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device?
64 > chown for the moment, and look at fstab - is there an entry? If not,
65 > /etc/init.d/devfs should do the mounting, does it look like this:
66 > "devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620 devpts"
67 The associated line when you cat /etc/init.d/devfs on my system looks
68 exactly like the line above.
69 > ?
70 >
71 > and what abot /dev/ptmx?
72 > does it look like the line from me or is there some root root stuff going on?
73 > if the later chown that.
74 If I do ls -lh /dev/ptmx, I get this output:
75 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5,2 Jan 1 21:36 ptmx
76
77 Regards,
78
79 Colleen
80 >
81
82
83 --
84
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Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>