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On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:03, darren kirby wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, |
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> and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I |
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> seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but I do not remember the |
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> cause. |
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> When I start X, all is well, and everything runs as it should, except for |
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> term programs. Eterm hangs there, but instead of a prompt, I get "press |
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> <esc> to exit". konsole and {a,x}term don't even show up, although I |
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> suspect they are just starting then stopping immediately. |
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> I do have psuedo terminals in my kernel, and in fact the config is exactly |
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> as it was with the old kernel. |
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> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? If you want to see my config file or |
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> something else just ask. |
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> Thanks, |
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> -d |
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hmm... try switching to another virtual console (e.g. <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>), |
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logging in as your user and running |
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DISPLAY=:0 konsole |
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(or replace 'konsole' with whatever term program) |
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and see if you get any messages |
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