On: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:46:11 -0500 (EST) Richard Hall writes:
>
> I just upgraded my system to glibc6, and it went smoothly for the most
> part. I used autoup and followed the instructions in the Mini-HOWTO. I
> am pretty much running as usual, but xterm doesn't work anymore, so I have
> to use rxvt. I'm having trouble figuring out the problem.
[...]
> and here's the tail of 'strace xterm':
>
> chown("/dev/ttyp5", 0, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> chown("/dev/ptyp5", 0, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> chmod("/dev/ttyp5", 0666) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> chmod("/dev/ptyp5", 0666) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
> permitted)
> _exit(0) = ?
>
> Any clues? Thanks in advance.
Check the file permissions of xterm:
~$ ls -l /usr/openwin/bin/xterm
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 156140 Sep 19 17:12 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm*
^
I assume you do not have the setuid-bit set, use chmod 4775
/usr/openwin/bin/xterm to correct this.
Torsten
