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vempire
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Joined: 01 Sep 2002
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 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 3:12 pm Post subject: Can't open xterm or aterm under X |
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I just installed gentoo 1.2 .. emerged openbox and tried to open an xterm from it but inothing happens. I emerged aterm as well and when trying to open it I see a debug line (if I go to ctrl-alt-Fx from where I launched X) saying : can't open slave tty (null).
I don't know how to get around it.. Searched on google and on gentoo forums but the problems I found are related to a user permission problem. I run X as root..
Any help would be greatly appreciated ! |
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Naan Yaar
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Joined: 27 Jun 2002
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| If you turned on "Unix98 PTY support" under "Character devices" in your kernel config, you need to turn on "/dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs" under "File systems". Your problem *may* be due to this. |
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vempire
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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I tried turning "Unix98 PTY support" and "/dev/pts file system" on but had the same problem. I tried changing several settings in the kernel but nothing seems to help.
In /proc/devices pty and ttyp are listed. Any other way to debug this issue ?
Here is the .config of the kernel in case it could help any further.
Thanks.
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#
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_SBUS is not set
CONFIG_UID16=y
#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
#
# Processor type and features
#
# CONFIG_LOLAT is not set
# CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL is not set
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MELAN is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
# CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_PGE=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
# CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set
CONFIG_JIFFIES=1000
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_I8K is not set
# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
# CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_1GB=y
# CONFIG_2GB is not set
# CONFIG_3GB is not set
# CONFIG_05GB is not set
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
# CONFIG_MTRR is not set
CONFIG_SMP=y
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_TIMES is not set
# CONFIG_MULTIQUAD is not set
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
# CONFIG_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
#
# PCMCIA/CardBus support
#
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y
# CONFIG_TCIC is not set
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set
# CONFIG_I82365 is not set
#
# PCI Hotplug Support
#
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_IBM is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
# CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT is not set
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
# CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set
# CONFIG_PM is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
#
# ACPI Support (DANGEROUS ON SOME SYSTEMS -- BE CAREFUL)
#
# CONFIG_ACPI is not set
#
# Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
#
# CONFIG_MTD is not set
#
# Parallel port support
#
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
#
# Plug and Play configuration
#
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_ISAPNP=y
# CONFIG_PNPBIOS is not set
#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
#
# Enterprise Volume Management System
#
# CONFIG_EVMS is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_LOCAL_DEV_MGR_PLUGIN is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_DOS_PARTITION_PLUGIN is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_SNAPSHOT_PLUGIN is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_DRIVELINK_PLUGIN is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_BBR_PLUGIN is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_LVM_PLUGIN is not set
# CONFIG_EVMS_MD
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Naan Yaar
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Joined: 27 Jun 2002
Posts: 1549
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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You can probably try:
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strace -eopen -ostrace.out -f xterm -e echo
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strace -ostrace.out -f xterm -e echo
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The latter will be more verbose and probably give you better diagnostics. The file strace.out will contain the trace output.
You need to emerge strace to be able to do it. |
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