On 20040430.1146, Bob Miller said ... > Rob Hudson wrote: > > > I recently got Debian up on my laptop, and X working. When I try to > > launch an xterm, however, it dies right away. > > Sounds like pseudo-terminals (ptys) aren't working. Verify by trying > some non-X11 programs that require ptys such as ssh (inbound), script > or screen. I bet they don't work either.
I can connect to the laptop from my workstation. Is that what you mean? > Did you build your own kernel? Did you include pty support? Or maybe > you need to mount the /dev/pts filesystem? Using Debian's 2.4.25 kernel. 'dmesg' shows "pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured". mount shows: /, /proc, /dev/pts type devpts, /dev/shm type tmpfs, /boot, /proc/bus/usb type usbfs, /var/lib/noflushd/devfs type devfs _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
