Re: Strange terminal problem with 2.5.6[8-9]

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 03:36, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> : 
> : The last working kernel I had under my X windows system was 2.5.67-bk7.  After
> : that point every 2.5.6[8-9] and bk patch has had one major problem on my
> : laptop - when I bring up a gnome-terminal or xterm the console prompt never
> : shows up.  The terminals just hang with a blinking cursor but I never get
> : a prompt.  If I reboot with the same setup into my 2.5.67 or any previous
> : kernel then everything works fine.
> : 
> : This is a Debian Sid system running gnome2.  Any ideas?
> : 
> 
> This problem still exists with all current bk patches for 2.5.69.  I'm not
> even sure where to look for the problem.  Since nobody else has reported a 
> problem I'm going to boot back to an older, working kernel and assume the 
> problem as something to do with the configuration I'm using (attached below).
> If anyone has any ideas just let me know and I'll give them a try

2.5.68 and later have depreciated devpts support in devfs.  Thus
you have to enable:

 CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y

and mount it during boot.  Easy way is just to add to fstab:

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none	/dev/pts	devpts	defaults	0 0
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Regards,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer