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Hello everyone.
Today, out of the blue, Eterm stopped working for me. I've ran a few system upgrades this week, didn't notice any problems. Eterm's been working for ages, too. I'm using wmii as a window manager.
Running it i get the following error:
Eterm: Error: grantpt(4) failed: No child processes
Eterm: Error: Can't open pseudo-tty -- No such file or directory
Eterm: Error: Unable to run sub-command.
I have google'd and searched, everyone seems to suggest that /dev/pts isn't mounted. /etc/fstab has this entry for devpts:
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
The first "devpts" was "none", and i tried changing it to "devpts" after someone advised it to me, but it made no difference.
Also, "mount" says:
...
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
...
... so I'm assuming it is in fact mounted. I have also tried umounting and mounting it again manually. Didn't help.
Another interesting thing is that xterm and aterm both work just fine. Also, when I first boot, I can open one Eterm, but trying to open the second one gives me the error.
While having one Eterm and one xterm opened:
[jj@kutija ~]$ ls -l /dev/pts/
total 0
crw--w---- 1 jj jj 136, 0 2009-11-02 14:31 0
crw--w--w- 1 jj jj 136, 1 2009-11-02 14:31 1
[jj@kutija ~]$
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Same problem here!
It happened to me about a week ago... sometimes the first two (autostarted) shells come up fine but sometimes just one or none. And after that it never works.
Maybe something is blocking devpts - i don't know.
Strange.
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well so far my solution has been to pimp out my urxvt and use it instead. i like it better anyway so i'm in no hurry for this solution. but it obviously still is a problem.
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I found a solution here: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux- … o-tty.html
To summarize, open "/etc/group" file and replace "tty::5:" with "tty::5:your-login-name"
However, there is one drawback which I'm not sure if it is related to this fix. After this fix, I cannot run any programs with gui from Eterm. I get this error:
No protocol specified
E233: cannot open displayNo protocol specified
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