On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:01:55AM -0500 or thereabouts, David Murphy wrote: > Hi folks. I'm running a Linux From Scratch system. This problem plagued me > for a while at Gnome 2.2, and it's still around after an upgrade to 2.4. > When I execute gnome-terminal, it pulls up a terminal window, but then > gives me nothing. The cursor blinks away at the upper-left corner of the > window, but I never get a prompt, and it won't accept any input. Executing > vte has identical symptoms (though a different-looking window). This > happens on my non-root user, but the terminals work just fine as root. > Sounds like a permission problem, but examining a few obvious suspects > produced nothing. I found a similar problem discussed long ago in the list > archives, but I didn't get anything out of that. > Basically, to start with, can someone give me a brief list of possibilites > for file permission problems? To narrow it down: does it happen with konsole (KDE's terminal) and with xterm too? If these are not on your panel menus, you could start them via the "command line applet" or whatever it's called. The long-ago one might have been something to do with the permissions on /dev/ptmx on Linux 2.2 systems? Should be 666 (owner.group: root.root). It's still that on my Linux 2.4 machine. If you have LinuxFromScratch, then does that mean you have a 2.6 kernel? I don't know anything about changes in that. Not heard of the /dev/ptmx one cropping up for a year or so, but I have vague memories of it from some time ago. > Another bug from 2.2 (haven't tested it in 2.4)... as non-root, if I opened > two terminal windows and then closed one, Gnome would die, and gdm would > recycle to the login screen. Don't know if that's related or not. Erm, wow. That sounds like an X crash to me. At least, an X crash is often what causes the symptoms of "GDM recycles to the login screen": GDM checks to see whether X is running. If X is not running, then GDM restarts it, and throws up the graphical login screen. Hence, in the wake of a crash, GDM restarts X. If this happens to you now, I would look at your X error log. I forget where GDM puts it, but there is definitely one around somewhere to look at. Telsa _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
