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From: Luke Albers <gtg940r@×××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:23:22
Message-Id: 1123251041.8226.12.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eterm issue by Arek Murzyn
1 On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 15:58 +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > I've done something recently on my gentoo and I don't remember what but till
5 > that moment I cannot run Eterm or xterm when logged as user. When logged as
6 > root everything is working. This issue is known on the web but solutions
7 > does not satisfy me Eterm.
8 > There are messages:
9 > "Can't open pseudo-tty --No such file or directory"
10 > "Unable to run sub-command"
11 > Then Eterm window raises and there is only "Hit any key to exit"
12 > I checked:
13 > - /dev/pty is compiled in kernel
14 > - /dev/pty directory exists and all files within
15 > - symbolic links in /dev exists too
16 > - changed rights to all these files to rwxrwxrwx - nothing helped
17 > 2.6.12r6, 2005.0
18 > What can I do more? Changin debugging level in Eterm gives nothing.
19 >
20
21 This sounds a lot like a problem I had a while ago. Noone could help
22 me, so I ended up reinstalling.
23
24 Sorry
25
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