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nosami

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Registered: 2010-09-16

Posts: 4

[Solved] Can't start xterm as normal user

When I start xterm, I get :-

jason@myhost ~ $ xterm
open ttydev: Permission denied

urxvt, gives
jason@myhost ~ $ urxvt
urxvt: could not obtain control of tty.

Gnome-Terminal and Terminator are both fine. Not sure when this happened as I've been using Terminator for some time now.

I added myself to tty group but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Last edited by nosami (2011-03-12 10:23:54)

Cagnulein

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From: Modena, Italy

Registered: 2006-04-03

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Re: [Solved] Can't start xterm as normal user

It seems a udev issue. Which version of udev do you have?

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nosami

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Registered: 2010-09-16

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Can't start xterm as normal user

I fixed my issue, I should have replied to myself sooner. I'd messed up my /etc/inittab at some point without realising. I had

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin jason tty linux

instead of

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin jason tty1 linux