Re: Can't Create Child Process - No Usable X11
--- Kenneth Jacker <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu> wrote:
> [sarge/testing; 2.6.8-1-686]
> My hunch is somehow 'udev' stopped working correctly ... maybe borked
> "pseudo terminals"? I say this due to messages I've seen and behavior
> after recovering from a "power fail" a few weeks ago. Then, after
> rebooting, /dev/null's permissions had been changed to 660 causing
> *many* things to break. Also, there were no /dev/pty* created (though
> they were under /.dev). Finally, the XF86Config-4 file was modified.
Before every one starts barking up the wrong tree, and generally starts
thrashing around the wrong information, just check the perms on /dev/ptmx.
They ought to be: "chmod o+rw /dev/ptmx".
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