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NeoBender
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 Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:15 am Post subject: Unable to open a suitable terminal device. |
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FIXED! I just added the following line:
'mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts'
to my /etc/conf.d/local.start file. 
Hi,
I'm running KDE 3.1.4 and get the error "Unable to open a suitable terminal device." whenever I try to have more than 2 terminals open. This happens as both root and a regular user.
I read through the boards and the recommended solution to that was to make sure Unix PTY was compiled into the kernel, but I checked and it already was.
Can anyone give me a hint as to what the problem is?
Thanks.
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meowsqueak
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| Directly below that option, check that you have a sufficient number of 'Unix98 PTYs in use' - I have mine set to 256, which is the default. |
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NeoBender
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, it's set at 256. Thanks for the suggestion though. |
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NeoBender
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Anyone have any other suggestion? This is driving me crazy. |
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NeoBender
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| One last bump in the hopes that someone can point me toward even an idea about what's wrong. |
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Fungos Bauux
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| Im having now this problem... i think that is some /dev permission... anyone can helpme??? |
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meowsqueak
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| The original author of the post edited it to indicate how he fixed it - did you notice the solution? Does that work for you? |
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Fungos Bauux
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:41 am Post subject: |
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i tried it.. but it doenst worked here.. im using udev...
when i mounted it, it was empty and konsole doesnt worked too..
then i tried to put it on fstab to load at boot time, but give error saying that it alread mounted.... on local.start same.. |
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Ben2040
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
I'm having the same problem too....
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Ben2040
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| Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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:: BUMP ::
Anyone? I'm getting desperate - XTerms look so crap compared to the konsole.
INFO - 2.6.5-Gentoo-R1 + KDE 3.2.1 + UDEV (latest on AMD64)
It works if I open an xterm, but then opening a konsole gives me the "psuedo teletype" shit, and if I try to create anything at all inside the the /dev/pts/ directory it goes permission denied - even as root! Currently in there is just a file called "0".
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