Hi Oscar, You were correct. During my last boot, I booted into the mm kernel (which did not have BSD PTY support), when I wasn't by the grub screen.
Thanks a lot, Hareesh On 7/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
