Have you built ptys support into the kernel? Also, have you moved to devfs?
I encountered this problem moving to 2.4.18 myself. Ian ------------ Dr Ian Firla Robert Graves Trust | "A partial count of the software available St John's College, Oxford | in just one noncommerical Linux system OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565 | would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop http://www.robertgraves.org | ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Mark Cooke wrote: > Ive just completey rebuit and nstalled all the latest gnome-1.4 from src, > and now Iam getting the following error when ever I try to run > gnome-terminal as a user: > > > There has been an error while trying to log in > if you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x, this > is probally due to incorrectly setup Unix98 ptys. > Please read linux/Documentation.Changes for how > to set them up correctly > ------------ > > It works fine as root, but not as a user, which would lead me suspect a > permission problem somewhere. > > I've checked the docs in the /usr/src/linux directory as It mentioned, but > I cannot find any referance to what I would need with this problem. > btw xterm works fine. > I'm running kernel-2.4.18, glibc-2.2.5. > > To be honest I'm not sure what to actually alter, with regards to permissions > > Thanks in advance > > Mark > > ----- > ---------- > Mark Cooke > Internet Operations Technician > MM Group Ltd > Tel: 8141 (Internal) > Tel: (0117) 9168141 (External) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mmgroup.co.uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
