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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:19:11
Message-Id: loom.20060628T045958-360@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs by Willie Wong
1 Willie Wong <wwong <at> Princeton.EDU> writes:
2
3
4 > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:57:30AM +0000, Penguin Lover James squawked:
5 > > Well I found a temporary work around, but it does not solve
6 > > the problem.
7
8 > > chown root:tty /dev/pty*
9 > > chown root:tty /dev/tty*
10 > > chmod 666 /dev/null
11
12 > > I'd sure like to know what to remerge to fix this problem.
13 > > hal ? udev ?
14
15
16 > If you are running udev, check
17 > /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions
18
19 > it should have lines like
20 > tty:root:tty:0666
21 > tty[0-9]*:root:tty:0660
22 > and
23 > null:root:root:0666
24 > zero:root:root:0666
25
26 Well I put udev in my /etc/portage/package.keyworks to get the latest
27 version, thinking that might fix the problem. It do not.
28
29
30
31 # egrep tty 50-udev.rules <shows these lines>
32
33 KERNEL=="pty[pqrstuvwxyzabcdef][0123456789abcdef]", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",
34 OPTIONS="last_rule"
35 KERNEL=="tty[pqrstuvwxyzabcdef][0123456789abcdef]", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",
36 OPTIONS="last_rule"
37 KERNEL=="vcs*", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",
38 OPTIONS="last_rule"
39 KERNEL=="vcsa*", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",
40 OPTIONS="last_rule"
41 KERNEL=="tty", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666",
42 OPTIONS="last_rule"
43 KERNEL=="tty[0-9]", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",
44 OPTIONS="last_rule"
45 KERNEL=="tty[0-9][0-9]", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty",
46 OPTIONS="last_rule"
47 KERNEL=="console", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty", MODE="0600"
48 KERNEL=="ptmx", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666"
49 # tty devices
50 KERNEL=="ttyS[0-9]*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="tts/%n", GROUP="tty"
51 KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="tts/USB%n", GROUP="tty", MODE="0660"
52 KERNEL=="ippp0", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty"
53 KERNEL=="isdn*" NAME="%k", GROUP="tty"
54 KERNEL=="dcbri*", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty"
55 KERNEL=="ircomm*", NAME="%k", GROUP="tty"
56 # alias pnp:dPNP0510 irtty-sir
57 # alias pnp:dPNP0511 irtty-sir
58
59
60 Likewise:
61
62 # egrep null 50-udev.rules
63 KERNEL=="null", NAME="%k", MODE="0666"
64
65
66 Want to suggest specific changes to which lines?
67
68 It looks as though the (mode) permissions and groups are getting
69 set per the udev files?
70
71 James
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