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  • From: Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>
  • To: "sm, discuss" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [sm-discuss] rxvt-unicode compiling/installing, but not able to open pseudo-tty
  • Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:15:27 -0600

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ...
>>
>> % urxvt
>> urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty, aborting.
>> urxvt: error while initializing new terminal instance at
>> /usr/lib/urxvt/urxvt.pm line 1125.
>>
>> ...
>
> BTW, both xter and aterm work OK. Also, "sudo urxvt" works OK. That
> tells me there might be a permissions issue around... Not sure what
> though...

Solved by:

gpasswd -a <username> tty

However it's weird I had to do that. Before it was not necessary.
But glibc is newer, :-)

Any other idea?

Thanks,

--
Javier.




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