On 01/01/12 19:55, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Okay, so how do I change the group for a character device?

Regards,

Colleen

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