On Nov 27, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Gary K Olson wrote: > I had koctave working on my ibook, but know when I load it I get the > following fatal error message with: > > Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that > this is due to an incorrect configuration of the PTY devices. Konsole > needs to have read/write access to the PTY devices. > > Koctave then quits when I click ok on the error dialog window. Of > course I can use octave from the command line, but I would like to get > to the bottom of this. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix > this? Perhaps it is some config file, or do I need to reinstall > something? Konsole runs fine by itself. > > The only thing I know that happened on my ibook between koctave > working and then this error message is that pth2-dev-2.0.7-1021 hangs > when it began the first test. I closed Terminal, removed the fink- > buildlock, restarted my machine in case something was wrong in > memory, and tried to install pth2-shlibs and pth2-dev again. The > terminal again was hung during first test. I don't have a crash log > as I had to close Terminal again.
fink -l build <packagenames> generates build log files in /tmp > I still have the /sw/scr/fink.build > file though. Does anyone have any idea why compiling and installing > this could be a problem? It's not directly related, since you'd still be using the prior version of pth2* until a new one is actually installed after a successful build. > By the way, I had not problem installing > these files on my iMac G5. Thanks for the help. > > My kit consists of: > > Package manager version: 0.28.6 > Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Wed Nov 26 10:06:22 2008, 10.5, > powerpc > OSX 10.5.5 > XTools 3.11 > powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488) > > Gary K Olson > The combination of the two errors sounds to me like something is awry with how your system is allocating PTYs. Try logging a build of pth2 so that we can see the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
