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digitalshepard
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 Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: aterm and pseudo-tty [solved] |
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I recently switched from gnome to fluxbox. In getting stuff set up, I found that when I restart my computer and boot into fluxbox and X, I can not start aterm, xterm, or eterm. If try to start a terminal from the fluxbox dropdown menu, I get a little box that blinks. If I switch over to a terminal, without X,
(push ctrl+alt+f, and try to start I term, I get this error:
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$ aterm
aterm: can't open psuedo-tty
aterm: exiting
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after searching a while online, I found that it is a permission error, and by switching to root and running:
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$ cd /dev
$ chmod g=rw, o=rw null zero pty* tty* ptmx random
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and then going back to my gui (<ctrl><alt><f7>), I can again start aterm, xterm, and eterm.
The only problem is that I need to change the permissions everytime I restart. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
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La`res
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| you could add a script to /etc/conf.d/local.start |
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digitalshepard
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, that wasy my workaround too, does anyone know why it resets everytime?
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m_sqrd
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| This a devfs or udev box? |
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_SkeLeToN_
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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had the same problem ... instead of changing permission just add your user to tty group  |
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digitalshepard
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| Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:59 am Post subject: |
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excellent,
a little disappointed that I didn't think of it first.
is there anything in particular that causes this?
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joolz
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| Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| try running etc-update and update everyhing conserning udev. |
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