[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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