[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-30 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at Princeton.EDU writes: Hum, I am pretty much out of ideas. What about editing /etc/udev/udev.conf to have udev_log=debug reboot, and check your system logs? Well, upon rebooting, I'm seeing udev complain about quite a lot of things. Nothing is viewable via dmesg. One of

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-30 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at Princeton.EDU writes: Hum, I am pretty much out of ideas. What about editing /etc/udev/udev.conf to have udev_log=debug reboot, and check your system logs? Well, for now I'm just going to patch this up until I can spend more time on it. All I need to so is issue these

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:53:50PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: All I need to so is issue these commands during the boot cycle, before I login in chown root:tty /dev/pty* chown root:tty /dev/tty* Any suggestions as the best place to insert/script these modifications to the

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-29 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at Princeton.EDU writes: Sorry about the delayed resonse, Gmane has been down since yesterday. What about /etc/conf.d/rc? Maybe you can toggle RC_DEVICES=udev and set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no? (or maybe setting it to yes might give you a work around?) I edited

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-29 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Sorry about the delayed respone; problems with http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user being down and losing emails. If fact I had to copy your latest respone from netnews: linux.gentoo.user. snipped from netnews Don't edit this file, put

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:19:29PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: What about /etc/conf.d/rc? Maybe you can toggle RC_DEVICES=udev and set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no? (or maybe setting it to yes might give you a work around?) I edited /etc/conf.d/rc: RC_DEVICES=udev Which did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:57:30 + (UTC), James wrote: When the system boots and gives me the kdm login screen, I have to first ssh remotely and run these commands chown root:tty /dev/pty* chown root:tty /dev/tty* chmod 666 /dev/null I'd sure like to know what to remerge to fix this

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-28 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at Princeton.EDU writes: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:04:55AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: Well I put udev in my /etc/portage/package.keyworks to get the latest version, thinking that might fix the problem. It do not. I don't think that's necessary. It works

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-28 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: chown root:tty /dev/pty* chown root:tty /dev/tty* chmod 666 /dev/null It sounds like your udev rules are screwed. My defaults are KERNEL==pty[pqrstuvwxyzabcdef][0123456789abcdef],NAME=%k, GROUP=tty,OPTIONS=last_rule KERNEL==null,NAME=%k,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:57:28 + (UTC), James wrote: # egrep null 50-udev.rules KERNEL==null, NAME=%k, MODE=0666 Why is /dev/null getting repeatedly set to more restrictive permission than 666? Is another rule overriding this one? Try grep null /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules --

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-28 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: # egrep null 50-udev.rules KERNEL==null, NAME=%k, MODE=0666 Why is /dev/null getting repeatedly set to more restrictive permission than 666? Is another rule overriding this one? Try grep null /etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:37:52 + (UTC), James wrote: which was the line I edited in '50-udev.rules'. Don't edit this file, put your own settings in 10-udev.rules and use := for any assignments to prevent a later rule overwriting them. -- Neil Bothwick Help put the fun back in

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-27 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: More Info on this problem: Kconsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that this is due to an incorrect configuration of the PTY devices. Kconsole needs to have read/write access to the PTY devices. Well I found a temporary work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:57:30AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: Well I found a temporary work around, but it does not solve the problem. When the system boots and gives me the kdm login screen, I have to first ssh remotely and run these commands chown root:tty /dev/pty* chown

[gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-27 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at Princeton.EDU writes: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:57:30AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: Well I found a temporary work around, but it does not solve the problem. chown root:tty /dev/pty* chown root:tty /dev/tty* chmod 666 /dev/null I'd sure like to know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kconsole lost PTYs

2006-06-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:04:55AM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: Well I put udev in my /etc/portage/package.keyworks to get the latest version, thinking that might fix the problem. It do not. I don't think that's necessary. It works perfectly fine on my system with udev-087. Could