Re: Gnome Terminal Disappears-- Solved!!

["1stFlight !" <1stflight donet com>]

Okay if I'm reading that right and your problem is the same as mine, what you
can do is change your /etc/fstab   devpts  line to a different group id (gid)
. Changing it to user might work but I've no idea of any security concerns
that might arise. Best Luck.



Darryl

James G Smith wrote:

> Darryl Baker <1stfligh@donet.com> wrote:
> >  Hey all,   nailed the beast, adding all users to the tty group was
> >needed. Thanks for all the assistance!
>
> Considering that this would not be a standard installation on most
> Unix systems, is there a fix for gnome-terminal that allows it to
> work without the group membership as mentioned above?
>
> When I start gnome-terminal, it begins, and then dies without any
> error messages to indicate why.
>
> My system: OpenBSD 2.5 GENERIC#243 i386
>            256 MB RAM
>            32 ttys
>            Gnome Terminal 1.0.54
>            gnome-libs 1.0.54
>            glib 1.2.6
>            gtk  1.2.6
>
> In other areas, I had to hack ORBit a bit to get it to compile - segfault
> in libc (sprintf routines).  Would seem like a OpenBSD problem except it
> was only in one location that sprintf had a problem.  Ended up replacing
> with a brain-dead explicit string copy.  There was one other big one, but
> I'll have to remember it before I can send it to the list.
> --
> James Smith <jsmith@jamesmith.com>
>