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

[Todd Cary]

Here are the result of the ls -la /dev/pts/ :

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun 19 18:31 .
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root       118784 Aug  4 11:53 ..

And here are the results of ls -la /dev/ | grep pts

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jun 19 18:31 pts

The trace is another story!  Since there appears to be a lot of 
"looping" in both coupled with my lack of understanding of what Linux is 
doing at this level of granulitity, I am not sure where the one run as 
"todd" hangs and the one run as "root" succeeds.

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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