On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>> The associated line when you cat /etc/init.d/devfs on my system looks >>>> exactly like the line above. >>> What about fstab? An entry in there could override the openrc setting. >> Good point, but how does that fstab entry appear if she hasn't done >> updates? I suppose she might have been editing in fstab and made a >> mistake? If she was editing she should certainly check it out. I didn't do any edits to fstab - the file was the one I created on the initial install on this computer a couple of months ago - computer is reasonable new. > I suspect Colleen did change something, but it didn't take effect until > a reboot. I've been caught like that before now, make a seemingly > insignificant change then get bitten a few weeks later when I reboot into > a new kernel and blame the kernel. The problem didn't have anything to do with a reboot. I was trying to get MySQL to recognize a database that I had created on my laptop and I was following along with the documentation on the MySQL site. I had konsole open looking for stuff - I copied the database files that I wanted to use in the location of the my.cnf file. I noticed that I didn't have konsole open at one point - thought that I had closed it and when I started it up again, there was no prompt, only the black block cursor. > >> Reading back through this thread I don't see whether Colleen tried my >> suggestion about a creating a new user. My thought was that some KDE >> config file somewhere got corrupted and a new user would not have that >> same issue. I did create a new user and it didn't help. I've tried every suggestion made in this thread to no avail. For example, I changed the group of /dev/pts to tty as others indicated that that was what it was supposed to be. > > I doubt it will make a difference in this case as it it down to > permissions in /etc, but it never hurts to try. Regards,
Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
