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willy9

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 56

[SOLVED] Cannot start a virtual terminal in KDE

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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jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start a virtual terminal in KDE

installed the new xorg ?

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Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start a virtual terminal in KDE

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.

willy9

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 56

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start a virtual terminal in KDE

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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willy9

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 56

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot start a virtual terminal in KDE

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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