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["John Copeland" <johnc AT neto.com>]

Anybody!

 

When I bring up KDE on my personal logon(not root) and try to start konsole I
get the following mesage and konsole terminates:
"Unable to open a suitable terminal"
After termination of KDE, I have a console message:
"Can't open a pseudo teletype"

 

I can start xterm by using "Run Command" from the KDE menu.  When I look in
the directory, /dev/pts, I see 0.  If I start another xterm, I see
/dev/pts{0,1}.  This tells me that pseudo terminals are configured in the
kernel(which I checked).  /proc/filesystems has " nodev devpts".
/etc/mtab has "devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0"

 

If I logged on as root then konsole starts as it should.

 

This acts like a permission problem, but I have no clue where.  Also since
xterm is ok, I don't think the permissions have to do with /dev/ptmx or
/dev/pts.

 

Anybody got any ideas?

 

Thanks
JohnC