On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:50:53PM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
chown and chmod the tty device.) You may want to check you have support for unix98 ptys in your kernel and a /dev/ptmx. This also requires glibc>=2.1. I guess if you are using devfs this should not be an issue..
I think you've put your finger on the hole in my set-up, I've just popped over to Richard Gooch's site and read the Devfs FAQ http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html. I think I need to regen the kernel with devfs support and implement devfs. Thanks!
If something like this happens again, try strace.
"strace gnome-terminal" will execute gnome-terminal and print out all of the system calls it makes. If you collect these into a file you should be able to find any problem with permissions by searching for calls which fail (such as open()ing a device getting "permission denied").