Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 19:40:37 schrieb Michael Mol: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:01:58 schrieb Mark Knecht: > >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Colleen Beamer > >>> <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: <SNIP> > >>> > >>> > No updates - konsole was working less than 15 minutes prior to sending > >>> > my > >>> > first message. Will trying googling. Thanks. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > Colleen > >>> > >>> Mysterious thread Colleen. > >>> > >>> Possibly the font file itself is messed up? I See you've tried other > >>> things in the Konsole config. Maybe try that? > >>> > >>> > >>> Settings->Appearance and then near the bottom try changing the font > >>> size, checking and unchecking the Smooth fonts options, and which font > >>> is being used? > >>> > >>> Good luck, > >>> Mark > >> > >> it is not font related. the error from xsession-errors is pretty clear. > >> > >> -- > >> #163933 > > > > I tend to agree Volker. > > > > Collen - on my system the pts entries are part of the tty group: > > > > mark@c2stable ~ $ ls -al /dev/pts/ > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 07:55 . > > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 5080 Jan 1 15:07 .. > > crw--w---- 1 mark tty 136, 0 Jan 1 09:58 0 > > crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 1 Jan 1 15:23 1 > > crw------- 1 mark tty 136, 2 Jan 1 16:31 2 > > mark@c2stable ~ $ > > > > Yours seemed to be assigned to you as a group and not tty. > > Then why would xterm work?
because xterm does not touch anything in /dev/pts xterm uses /dev/ptmx konsole uses /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts/X now look at the permissions of ptmx and pts/* ls -lh /dev/ptmx crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2. Jan 01:54 /dev/ptmx and for pts I posted above/look at mark's output. Group setting is important. -- #163933
