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Hi people,
I'm having an annoying issue with konsole : when started, the app starts, but it doesn't give me the prompt... All I have is a white cursor in the top left corner, and I can't type anything.
Switching to vc/1 using ctrl+alt+F1 works fine, and is fully usable.
I installed yakuake : same issue. I then installed gtkterm : same issue, but this time I get an error message :
Can not open /dev/ttyS0 : Permission not granted
Ain't ttyS0 the serial port ? Is there any chance that might be the problem ?
As suggested on the chakra forum, I checked permissions on :
* /bin/bash : root root 755
* /dev/tty1 : root root 777
On a maybe related note, I'm also having issues with kdesu : launching "kdesu kate" in krunner asks for root passwd, but then fails telling me "su" is not a recognized command. Similarly, I can only launch arxin, kuser, etc... as a regular user, giving the root passwd when required fails with that same error. I can use "su" when using vc/1, it works fine.
It looks like I've broken something bad, but I don't know what...Any idea, anyone ? I could go the easy way and reinstall, but I like to understand things...
Last edited by willy9 (2009-04-14 18:47:27)
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Create a new user to see if its a kde config issue.
Also, not sure if its related but see if you have a /dev/pts line in fstab.
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Thanks for helping !
@jelly : yes, but I had the issue before. Can it be xorg related ?
@Chrysalis : yes but it is commented. Should I uncomment it ?
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
#none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
UUID=89336a04-983f-44ba-ba37-a869648b687f / ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=6e5aca93-8b3f-4964-a7f2-47460e74d667 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=55daef78-db61-11dd-b2a0-2b699ceb5d02 /home ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win ntfs users,umask=0,utf8 0 0
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Well, I uncommented the /dev/pts line, and it solved both of my problems (virtual console & su) ! Thanks Chrysalis !!!
I did some googling and understood why it caused me troubles, so this point is SOLVED
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