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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:52:50PM -0500, John Copeland wrote:
> 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?

I can't really help you since i don't use kde, but it could be
permission problems. That xterm works isn't proof that permissions are
ok since xterm is installed suid root, so you may try to check
permissions (though i have no idea for what and where :)

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