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quoth the Michael Kjorling: |
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> On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, bulliver@×××××××××××.org wrote: |
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> > I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as |
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> > Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an |
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> > xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but |
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> > I do not remember the cause. |
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> Did you make any changes related to pty support? |
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No. I have: |
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[*] Legacy (BSD) PTY support. |
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and 256 pty* devices in /dev |
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However, I noticed permissions were -rwxrwx--- on the files, owner root, group |
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tty, so I simply added my user to tty group and it works now... |
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I'm looking at my desktop, and I am a member of tty group there. It makes me |
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think that maybe I accidently overwrote /etc/group during an etc-update, but |
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this can't be because all the other groups memberships are still present (ie: |
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video,audio etc). Very odd that this would work before... |
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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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Thank you. This is the invocation I was looking for. Hard to start an app from |
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the CLI when you can't get a CLI ;) |
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Thanks for the help both Michael and John, |
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-d |
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org |
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." |
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- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 |
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