Re: [Evolution] Console perms messed up (was: RPMS for Palm m500 series)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

use strace to find out what the actual reason is (perms or existance,
etc)


On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 04:17, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On æ, 2002-07-28 at 13:20, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > due to demand for Palm m500 compatible evolution RPMS I just put 4 RPMS
> > at the following URL:
> >
> > http://www.omeo.ca/pub/evolution/
> >
> > evolution-1.0.8-et.3.i386.rpm               (binaries are stripped)
> > gnome-pilot-0.1.65-et.3.i386.rpm    (contains gnome-pilot-devel)
> > gnome-pilot-conduits-0.9-et.3.i386.rpm
> > pilot-link-0.10.99-et.3.i386.rpm
>
> This now works fine with my M515, but now I find that I can't start a
> wterm (rxvt modified to be WindowMaker-like). I get these messages:
>
> wterm: can't open pseudo-tty
> wterm: aborting
>
> It does work when I'm root, so it's got to be some kind of permissions
> thing, but I can't figure it out, nor can I see why installing these
> packages could have caused it. I even added some stuff to
> /etc/security/console.perms like this:
> <console>=tty[0-9][0-9]* vc/[0-9][0-9]* pty/[sm][0-9][0-9][0-9]*
> :[0-9]\.[0-9] :[0-9]
>
> but it didn't help. Does anyone have a clue?
> (I'm running RH 7.3 with kernel 2.4.19-pre10 with xfs and devfs.)
> -- 
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