Have you compiled a new kernel recently? When terminals behave like that, usually that means that you haven't compiled in "legacy (bsd) pty support" in your kernel (Device Drivers -> Character devices)...
Oscar Monday 25 July 2005 10.48 skrev Hareesh Nagarajan: > Hi All: > > Everytime I invoke a new instance of ETerm or XTerm, they appear on > the screen momentarily and then disappear. A ps -ef | grep $TERM shows > nothing, which proves that these processes died almost as soon as they > were spawned. > > When I invoke Konsole, the window appears but the prompt never makes > it to the screen. > > I have no idea why I am facing this problem, because in the last boot it > worked. > > Any hints? > > Thanks, > > Hareesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
