Re: xterm broken

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@gmx.net>]

On: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:46:11 -0500 (EST) Richard Hall writes:
> 
> I just upgraded my system to glibc6, and it went smoothly for the most
> part.  I used autoup and followed the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO.  I
> am pretty much running as usual, but xterm doesn't work anymore, so I have
> to use rxvt.  I'm having trouble figuring out the problem.

[...]

> and here's the tail of 'strace xterm':
> 
> chown("/dev/ttyp5", 0, 0)               = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> chown("/dev/ptyp5", 0, 0)               = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> chmod("/dev/ttyp5", 0666)               = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> chmod("/dev/ptyp5", 0666)               = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> _exit(0)                                = ?
> 
> Any clues?  Thanks in advance.

Check the file permissions of xterm:

~$ ls -l /usr/openwin/bin/xterm 
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       156140 Sep 19 17:12 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm*
   ^
I assume you do not have the setuid-bit set, use chmod 4775
/usr/openwin/bin/xterm to correct this.

	Torsten