Re: aterm
chris dunn (chris@dunnz.org)
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:26:18 -0500
Andrew,
Thanks for your input.
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:23:04 -0500
Andrew Ferguson <andrew@owsla.cjb.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:41:28 chris dunn wrote:
> > aterm: can't open pseudo-tty
> > aterm: aborting
> >
> > I've read the README.Unix98PTY, and as far as I can tell I have a
proper
> > installation for use with /dev/pts. However I also have a bunch of
> > /dev/tty* and /dev/pty* devices. Is this correct?
>
> Do you have CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS set to 'y' in your kernel .config?
...........yes
> Also make sure that CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT is set to a reasonable
number
> (like more than one or two).
...........currently set to 512
> If both of those are correct, make sure that you have permission to
open
> the /dev/pts/* files
............../dev/pts is an empty directory as follows
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 1999 pts/
> and the /dev/pty* files.
............../dev/pty files from ptya0 to ptyzf, the first entry is
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 176 May 20 1996 ptya0
> Also try running aterm as root and see if that solves the problem,
then
> you know it's permission settings.
.............logging in as root and runing aterm gives me identical
results.
Does any of this help?
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