Users cannot access the xterm

Troglodyte · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:12 am Post subject: Users cannot access the xterm

I've just installed Gentoo onto my new laptop - Acer L3500D - everything seems to be up and running fine. My only problem seems to be that I can't access any kind of term - aterm, xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal - from my user account? This has had me stumped for the last day or so. What have I forgotten?? If you need to see any of my config files just lemme know.

Thanks
Troglodyte

P.S. I'm running the 2.6.1 kernel.
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KungFuHamster · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:17 am Post subject:

Go into your kernel config and make sure you have Unix98 PTY support. It should be under Device Drivers --> Charachter Devices.
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Troglodyte · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:21 am Post subject:

That's the ticket!
Thanks very much.

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Troglodyte · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:09 am Post subject:

OK a bit too quick on that reply. I didn't have Unix98 PTY compiled in which I have now changed, rebooted, still no access to xterm for users :cry:

Anything else I may have left out?
/boot was mounted when I recompiled the kernel
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20485

What are the file permissions on xterm?

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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Troglodyte · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject:

The permissions were fine but it turns out I was having a major problem with my hard drive which was picked up during a routine disk scan on the twenty somethingth boot up. e2fsck couldn't repaire it for me and I couldn't do it manually, so I'm reinstalling as we speak.
Guess I've got a fairly cheap hard drive

Thanks all
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Troglodyte · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:53 pm Post subject:

OK, so I'm finally up and running again. This time using bootstrap-2.6.sh with the 2.6.1 kernel... And it's all good!

Last time I was using the regular bootstrap.sh with the 2.6 kernel and there was problems compiling the initial system progs. Guess I should have look around a bit better fisrt time :oops:

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