On Monday 09 October 2006 17:39, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 19:01, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Reinstalled debian i386 etch, kernel 2.6.15 I experince problems with kde > > konsole: > > > > Trying to run user commands in konsole, I got message > > > > 'Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that > > this is due to an incorrect configuration of PTY device. Konsole needs to > > have read/write access to the PTY device' > > > > Problems with /dev/pts ownership? If so, where to change property? > > ------------------------------- > > > > Then, trying to get the root shell, it did not accept the Administrator > > password with warning: > > > > 'The program 'su' is not found; make sure your PATH is set correctly'. > > > > Normally PATH is to be told to kdm, though I do not use kdm. At any > > event, ./bashrc is in order. > > Can you check with > > $ which su > > if su is being found before calling startkde? > (assuming you run startkde manually) command which su does not detect su, even if issued sitting on /bin. File /bin/su has normal properties: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 25024 May ... su cheers francesco > > Cheers, > Kevin ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.