[NBLUG/talk] What controls the "prompt"?

[Todd Cary]

Slight problem:

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Also, please send me (not the list) the results of these:

strace gnome-terminal 2> /tmp/gnome-output1.txt
(as your own username in gnome)
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I cannot bring up a terminal window in Gnome as todd :-) .  The basis of my problem.  Unless there is another way of getting to a terminal window while in Gnome?!?

I will do it while I am in KDE...that should do it since I cannot get the Terminal window to come up correctly.

More later....

Todd


ME wrote:

>Good! Progress. I need some more information and would like to request you
>do some things:
>
>Are you running devfs or is dev a mounted physical filesystem? (I expect
>you have a /dev/ mounted filesystem that is not devfs)
>
>If you are running wit /dev/ that is not /devfs, then again, please check
>to see if you have a directory in /dev called "pts"
>
>(Do these as root)
>
>ls -la /dev/ | grep pts
>and
>ls -la /dev/pts/
>
>Also, please send me (not the list) the results of these:
>
>strace gnome-terminal 2> /tmp/gnome-output1.txt
>(as your own username in gnome)
>
>and again:
>
>strace gnome-terminal 2> /tmp/gnome-output-root.txt
>(as root)
>
>Different files for each. These should provide some details on what files
>are being opened and where it might be getting stuck.
>
>Thanks!
>-ME
>
>Todd Cary said:
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>>Here are the results of
>>
>>$ ls -la /dev/ptys* /dev/tty* > /tmp/my-tty.txt
>>    
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