Have you compiled

Device Drivers -> Character devices -> Unix98 PTY Support
File Systems -> Pseudo filesystems -> /dev/pts filesystem
and devfs support is compiled into the kernel?
you should also mount /dev/pts in /etc/fstab


Ryan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Butcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: [SLUG] 2.6.8 upgrade round 2


> Having got 2.6.8 to boot by changing lilo root arg to /dev/sda1 
> (compiling ext3 as module or not seems to be a furphy), everything seems 
> to work except ANY console (i.e. KDE Konsole, Gnome console etc. or even 
> a native console via PF1, 2  etc)... they seem to lock up when trying to 
>   output data to the screen i.e. Konsole comes up and allows 
> configuration via the toolbars, but can't display a cursor prompt.. like 
> the native console via PF1... that allows me to type input e.g. ls, cd 
> etc, but hangs up without displaying its output... as if these consoles 
> are in some sort of read-only mode.
> I see a comment at Mandrake that they appear to have a similar problem 
> with 10.2 beta.
> My earlier problem seemed to be a compatibiliy issue with a system 
> installed by a previous kernel version and I suspect this is similar, 
> rather than something being broken. ??? I looked in /var/log/message and 
> syslog and found nothing coming up looking out of the ordinary at 
> bootup, and nothing at all when Konsole loaded... anything I should look 
> for specifically ?
> cheers
> Rod
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