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From: Hareesh Nagarajan <hareesh.nagarajan@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:06:06
Message-Id: 7728232c05072511563d5a9395@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm, XTerm disappear everytime I invoke them in KDE by monotux@gmail.com
1 Hi Oscar,
2
3 You were correct. During my last boot, I booted into the mm kernel
4 (which did not have BSD PTY support), when I wasn't by the grub
5 screen.
6
7 Thanks a lot,
8
9 Hareesh
10
11 On 7/25/05, monotux@×××××.com <monotux@×××××.com> wrote:
12 > Have you compiled a new kernel recently?
13 > When terminals behave like that, usually that means that you haven't compiled
14 > in "legacy (bsd) pty support" in your kernel (Device Drivers -> Character
15 > devices)...
16 >
17 > Oscar
18 >
19 > Monday 25 July 2005 10.48 skrev Hareesh Nagarajan:
20 > > Hi All:
21 > >
22 > > Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on
23 > > the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows
24 > > nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they
25 > > were spawned.
26 > >
27 > > When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes
28 > > it to the screen.
29 > >
30 > > I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it
31 > > worked.
32 > >
33 > > Any hints?
34 > >
35 > > Thanks,
36 > >
37 > > Hareesh
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