On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Colleen Beamer <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/01/12 17:15, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 1. Januar 2012, 16:51:23 schrieb Colleen Beamer: >> >>>> What happens if you run xterm? >>> In response, konsole was working just find earlier today - I had a >>> command prompt and everything. I had to install xterm, but on install >>> I could run xterm and it provides me with a command prompt. >> >> so what happens when you start konsole out of xterm? Any messages? Do you >> find >> anything in .xsession-errors? >> > Starting konsole out of xterm results in the same issue - no prompt. > > From .xsession-errors the following related to konsole was provided, but > I have no idea how to go about fixing this: > > konsole(8283)/kdecore (KPty/K3Process) KPty::open: Can't open a pseudo > teletype > konsole(8283) Konsole::Pty::flowControlEnabled: Unable to get flow > control status, terminal not connected. > konsole(8283) Konsole::Pty::start: Unable to set terminal attributes.
Since reboots don't fix it, it doesn't sound like a starvation issue. Since your /dev/pts is mounted and seems to have useful permissions, it doesn't sound like a permissions issue. Since xterm works, it *definitely* shouldn't be a permissions issue relating to ptys; I'd expect xterm would have had the same issue. Still, with the error 'Can't open a pseudo teletype', code and activity relating to ptys are where I'd keep looking. If it were me, at this point I'd try running konsole under strace, direct strace's output to a text file, and then grep that file for anything relating to /dev/pts, look at the error codes (or lackthereof, or lack of matching lines), and try figuring things out from there. -- :wq
