[Sunhelp] strange things happening, grantpt failed
Magnus Abrante
magnus.abrante at sweden.sun.com
Fri Oct 27 06:51:45 CDT 2000
> openwin comes up with the message
> fbconsole: grantpt failed
>
> I am not able to get any terminal, receiving instead messages like
> xterm: Error 1, errno 13: Permission denied
> or
> grantpt: No such file or directory
> XView error: NULL pointer passed to xv_set
>
> other programs (xload, file manager, ...) are displayed very well
>
> What is happening here ?
> Any ideas ?
Sounds like its unable to get itself a pseudo-terminal, make sure the
permisions of /usr/lib/pt_chmod is 4111 (eg ---s--x--x ).
//Magnus Abrante
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