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

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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