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sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

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[SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

Suddenly all the console apps stopped working properly in X. There is only cursor  - [] visible, but no prompt. I have tried KDE, Gnome and different console apps in them (Konsole and Aterm). In Aterm I can write things, enter works, but I get no prompt. In Konsole, nothing seems to happen.

At the same time another weird thing has happened - trying to run programs as a different user (I have tried root so far) results in error - password is always wrong. This happened exatly at the same time with this console issue so I hope the two have the same cause.

The usual framebuffer shell works just like before, I get the bash prompt, can login as root etc.

Martillo1

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From: My kabila in Lavapiés

Registered: 2004-02-20

Posts: 66

Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

Have you configured the keyboard correctly in xorg.conf? If not, try xorgcfg from a root terminal window. Do not forget to correct the HSync and Vsync frecuencies after you are done, cause xorgcfg tends to mess with them.

sven

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Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

Keyboard seems to work fine and I have it set up in xorg.conf.

sven

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Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

I think it is somehow updates-related, because after I updated another computer, the same problem with consoles happened.

sven

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Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

and it stays that way

phrakture

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Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

you need to mount the pseudo terminal file system in fstab... I don't have the exact line on me, but search the forums

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0

EDIT: This should mount it:

mount devpts /dev/pts -t devpts

sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Consoles stopped working properly in X

great! Consoles are back now! That mount command did it. Thanks, Penguin and phrakture!