Re: Gnome-Terminal/VTE not working for non-root user

[Martin Willemoes Hansen <mwh sysrq dk>]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:01, David Murphy wrote:
> Hi folks. I'm running a Linux From Scratch system. This problem plagued me 
> for a while at Gnome 2.2, and it's still around after an upgrade to 2.4.
> 
> When I execute gnome-terminal, it pulls up a terminal window, but then gives 
> me nothing. The cursor blinks away at the upper-left corner of the window, 
> but I never get a prompt, and it won't accept any input. Executing vte has 
> identical symptoms (though a different-looking window). This happens on my 
> non-root user, but the terminals work just fine as root. Sounds like a 
> permission problem, but examining a few obvious suspects produced nothing. I 
> found a similar problem discussed long ago in the list archives, but I 
> didn't get anything out of that.
> 
> Basically, to start with, can someone give me a brief list of possibilites 
> for file permission problems?
> 
> Another bug from 2.2 (haven't tested it in 2.4)... as non-root, if I opened 
> two terminal windows and then closed one, Gnome would die, and gdm would 
> recycle to the login screen. Don't know if that's related or not.
> 
> I've tried two versions of gnome-terminal and vte, (2.2.1/0.10.26 and 
> 2.4.2/0.11.10) same results.
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> -David Murphy

Do you have a mount point like:
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

I once did not have my devpts setup correctly and was experiencing a
similar problem like yours.

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