On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:01, 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? > > 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. > > I've tried two versions of gnome-terminal and vte, (2.2.1/0.10.26 and > 2.4.2/0.11.10) same results. > > Thanks for any help... > -David Murphy Do you have a mount point like: devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) I once did not have my devpts setup correctly and was experiencing a similar problem like yours. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Plan your next US getaway to one of the super destinations here. > http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Martin Willemoes Hansen -------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail mwh@xxxxxxxx Website mwh.sysrq.dk IRC MWH, freenode.net -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
