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tommyturbine

Member

Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 16

Terminals have stopped working, poss /dev/pts permissions prob SOLVED

Hi guys,

I've got a strange problem. All of a sudden last night every terminal emulator apart from xterm stopped working. Lilyterm says it can't open a new child process, terminal opens but doesn't start a bash session and urxvt gives me this error message:

<code>
[tom@pinkthad ~]$ urxvt
urxvt: can't initialize pseudo-tty, aborting.
</code>

/dev/pts is mounted

<code>
[tom@pinkthad ~]$ mount
............................
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
</code>

<code>
[tom@pinkthad ~]$ ls /dev/pts
0  1  ptmx
</code>

and xterm is working just fine: every time I open a new xterm a new pty is created in /dev/pts.

Possibly related, something strange happened with consolekit at the same time, ck-launch-session wasn't running even though called in .xinitrc. I fixed this by adding

<code>
console-kit-daemon
</code>

to /etc/rc.local, so now shutdown and reboot etc works again.

thanks for your time,

tommyturbine

Last edited by tommyturbine (2011-01-05 14:32:16)

tommyturbine

Member

Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 16

Re: Terminals have stopped working, poss /dev/pts permissions prob SOLVED

Update:

Fixed the problem by reinstalling glibc. It seems it was a permissions error somewhere in /usr/lib