Re: xterms: Non Root User's Cant Open a Psuedo Teletype
At 22:22 +0000 2000-03-08, root wrote:
>I installed Debian yesterday, all went pretty well, except for this
>little problem. When I try to start an xterm, kvt or konsole as non-root
>I get an error saying can't open a psuedo teletype. All other programs
>work fine.
>
>demilk:~# su AArthur -c "konsole"
>Can't open a psuedo teletype
>demilk:~#
>
>All of the /dev/ttyp* are a+rw, o+rw, g+rw.
>
>Other then that also seems to be working pretty good, although not being
>able to access x terminal windows is surely annoying.
Please strace one of those and send the output.
As a hunch, however, ls -l /dev/ptmx and ls -ld /dev/pts.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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