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southerncross

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Registered: 2010-02-03

Posts: 41

Weird terminal issue

Hello,

I went away for over 2 weeks and I did a pretty large upgrade on my return (almost 900 MB). Everything seems to work well but I get a weird error message when I open the gnome terminal and I can't use it (no prompt). I can use xterm, but can't use the Konsole either (no prompt here either). Here's what I get when I launch it from xterm:

 grantpt failed: unallowed operation 

On the terminal a red banner repeats the same message and also notes that there was an error during the thread creation of this process. I  tried to uninstall and reinstall the termial but I have the same error message. Any clue?

Thanks!

Last edited by southerncross (2013-08-28 09:17:48)

thegala

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Registered: 2013-08-27

Posts: 16

Re: Weird terminal issue

Plese see this thread
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1316309

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Weird terminal issue

Maybe it's https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168303 ?

southerncross

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Registered: 2010-02-03

Posts: 41

Re: Weird terminal issue

Indeed the link suggested by Karol was the right one. Removing /dev/pts from fstab works.

thanks!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Weird terminal issue

Actually, the thread posted by thegala also provides the same solution https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1312644

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309