On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:12:03PM -0500, Lee Malatesta wrote: > 1. kdm won't start on boot. I get an error on the console: > Checking for valid XFree86 configuration....Unable to check. > Not starting X display manager. > > after loggin in, startx works just fine. > > 2. I can't start a terminal window in X. My WM of choice > gives no error messages. xterm just doesn't start. > If I try gnome-terminal, I get a mesage about not being > able to log in with the admonishment: If you are using > Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x this is probably due to > incorrectly set up Unix 98 ttys.
I don't know if the two are related, but... If you upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel (the default potato is 2.2.14), then there should be a script in /etc/init.d called devpts.sh. It should ``mount'' /dev/pts and make sure /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts exist. If you haven't rebooted, you can probably just run this script and it'll fix the Unix 98 ptys issue. I assume you upgraded all of your kde stuff at the same time? -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller [email protected] | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
