Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 21:48:13 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:12 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 April 2007 22:29, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > > I've just upgraded my Debian Sid system, and now when I try and
> > > > start konsole (in KDE) it fails saying it is unable to open a
> > > > PTY.
[...]
> > It isn't an init script. udev dynamically creates these.
> >
> > As I open new consoles in XFce, I find that with one terminal open, I
> > get one device in /dev/pts/. If I open 2, I have two devices
> > in /dev/pts/.
> >
> > If I open 30 terminals, I get 30 devices. I just tried it.
> >
> > I actually looked for evidence that it is a udev problem or a konsole
> > problem. I installed konsole, had zero problems, I got nothing for
> > you on this one. I used gnome-terminal, same thing. xterm, same
> > thing.
> >
> > konsole v3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6
> > xterm v225-1
> > gnome-terminal v2.18.0-1
> > udev v0.105-4
> > hal v0.5.8.1-9
> > linux-image linux-image-2.6.20-1-k7 v2.6.20-2~snapshot.8442
> >
> > In /etc/udev/permissions.rules I have this:
> >
> > KERNEL=="pty*", MODE="0666", GROUP="tty"
> >
> > In /etc/udev/run.rules
> >
> > KERNEL=="pty*", OPTIONS+="last_rule"
> >
> > I'd have to think that would be all that is needed.
>
> I have just those rules. But what devices does it create in /dev?
> I have /dev/ptmx and a directory /dev/pts (with nothing in it). The
> directory is owned by root.root with access rights 755. This maybe the
> problem - can you tell me what yours are.
$ ls -l /dev/ptmx
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 2007-04-17 22:54 /dev/ptmx
> > Two last questions, is udev working(running?) and what kernel are you
> > using?
>
> udev is running
> kernel is 2.6.20
>
> (I would normally go to a console and do a uname -r for you - but I am
> hobbled because I can only get to a console with CTL-ALT-F1, but then I
> can only get back if I restart kdm - because a bug in the i810 driver
> locks my machine solid if I try to come back via CTL-ALT-F7).
For some versions of the i810 driver I have had to set
Option "VBERestore" "true"
in the "Device" section of xorg.conf to make the mode switching work.
(Currently it is commented out, but I am running the Xorg from
Experimental right now. I don't remember how it was with version 7.1)
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