On 01/01/12 20:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 20:05:04 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> 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? > chown for the moment, and look at fstab - is there an entry? If not, > /etc/init.d/devfs should do the mounting, does it look like this: > "devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620 devpts" The associated line when you cat /etc/init.d/devfs on my system looks exactly like the line above. > ? > > and what abot /dev/ptmx? > does it look like the line from me or is there some root root stuff going on? > if the later chown that. If I do ls -lh /dev/ptmx, I get this output: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5,2 Jan 1 21:36 ptmx
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