On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:34:27AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> David Wolfskill wrote:
>
> > Built -CURRENT & rebooted after mergemaster as usual, and some X
> > applications (xbattbar; xlockmore; oclock) work OK, but no xterm. At
> > least, not from X (XF86-4.0.3). I tried using Ctl-Alt-F2 to get to
> > a non-X login, logged in , set DISPLAY to m147:0.0, issued "xterm &",
> > and got an xterm OK.
>
> Known problem. phk changed the semantics of /dev/tty in the most recent
> commits. Traditional behavior for a process *without* a controlling tty
> when it opens /dev/tty is to get ENXIO.
I am confused now. I have just finished building and installing world and
kernel from top-of-the-tree sources:
FreeBSD fonix.hos.u-szeged.hu 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #42: Tue May
15 18
:32:49 CEST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/FONIX
i386
and I am (for the first time ever) a proud owner of a devfs-powered FreeBSD
system. So far things are looking A-OK.
Having read about all the trouble people were having with xterms, I grew a
bit anxious and fired up X. It crashed because the config file contained
/dev/mouse and that node no longer exists, but of course correcting it to
/dev/sysmouse made things work. Then... I proceeded to open an xterm... and
it opened! Just right-clicked the root window and chose xterm form the
popup menu and it worked without any patch... although I am confident I do
have the latest of phk-s commits and I am running on a new kernel... I am
using XFree-3.3.6 and olvwm if that at all counts... of course I am happy
to see no problems but why are others seeing them?
--
Regards:
Szilveszter ADAM
Szeged University
Szeged Hungary
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