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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] linux-2.6 problem
  • Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:49:08 +0100

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:13:08PM +0100, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
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> I've just built a 2.6.3-rc2 kernel having previously been using 2.4.24. No
> other software was changed
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> it rebooted all the way to kde, which mostly works, except for the shells
> (konsole), which don't have a prompt and don't accept input.

You need devpts mounted:
mount none -t devpts /dev/pts

You can safely put that in fstab, in 2.4 devpts was also handled by
devfs, but it doesn't hurt to mount it, and for 2.6 it's required.

> Switching to an alternate console works (ctrl-alt-Fn), as does typing in
> kmail
> and kwrite.
>
> Do I need to rebuild, glibc, x11, qt, ... in order to solve the problem?
>
> I would prefer to be able to dual boot with 2.4.24 for a while.
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> Any other ideas would be welcome
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> Regards, Treeve
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