Re: Gnome-terminal doesn't show prompt

["Michael D. Cencula" <junk1 cencula penguinpowered com>]

James, thanks for the suggestion.  I followed your instructions so an ls -l
now gives:

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root   root   7652 Apr 13 19:13 gnome-pty-helper

Unfortunately, this has had no effect.  Any other ideas?

Mike

> Is the gnome-pty-helper program setuid root?  It is located in the
> $(prefix)/sbin directory.  The permissions shown when you run look at it
> with ls -l should be something like "-rwsr-xr-x" (note the s).  If they
> are not, run the following as root:
>   chown root.root $(prefix)/sbin/gnome-pty-helper
>   chmod a=rx,u+ws $(prefix)/sbin/gnome-pty-helper
>
> (where you replace $(prefix) with whatever prefix you installed gnome
> under).
>
> James.
>
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> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Michael D. Cencula wrote:
>
> > I've recently installed Gnome on my RH 5.2 system running kernel 2.0.36.
> > When I run Gnome as root, and start a terminal, all is fine.  When I run
> > Gnome as myself and start a terminal, the terminal doesn't show a
prompt.
> > Instead, it shows a block cursor in the upper left corner and does not
> > accept keyboard input.  How can I get my terminal windows to work
correctly?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael D. Cencula
> > junk1@cencula.penguinpowered.com
> >
> >
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