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psybeer

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 14

terminal not showing up in X [SOLVED]

Got arch up and running 2 days ago with XFCE. Whenever I open the terminal, the window comes up, but the cursor is never ready for any input. The system does not freeze, just the new terminal window shows a black screen with a cursor, nothing else. Any ideas?

EDIT: This also happens under default KDE installation.

Last edited by psybeer (2009-01-19 21:36:18)

kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: terminal not showing up in X [SOLVED]

what terminal are you trying to run?  is it installed?  in your path?

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psybeer

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 14

Re: terminal not showing up in X [SOLVED]

Well, I am trying to run the default installed on in XFCE (not really sure)
The command for the launcher is the following:

exo-open --launch Terminal

EDIT:

Looked into it further, seems it's a problem with xterm. when I add xterm to my .xinitrc file to test with X, i get the following error:

xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory 
Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys

this pty issue seems to be the culprit, just not sure how to fix it yet.

Last edited by psybeer (2009-01-17 05:14:44)

psybeer

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Registered: 2009-01-16

Posts: 14

Re: terminal not showing up in X [SOLVED]

solved... turns out I had my /dev/pty mount commented out in fstab. Thanks.

DFooz

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Registered: 2009-02-03

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Re: terminal not showing up in X [SOLVED]

i've had the same problem, accidentally have the file deleted /
the string is: /dev/pts               /dev/pts         devpts          rw,auto,hidden