Re: gnome-terminal error

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:27:39PM +0200 or thereabouts, Henrik wrote:
> When I try to run gnome-terminal 1.4.2 as a user on my Linux 2.4
> machine, I get the message:
> "There has been an error while trying to log in.
> If you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x, this
> is probably due to incorrectly setup Unix98 ptys."
> I also get a term output:
> Error: unable to fork: Success
> It works fine to run gnome-terminal as root.

I don't know whether this is applicable for Linux 2.4, but: 
What are the permissions on /dev/ptmx? 
For 2.2, they should be 666 (crw-rw-rw). 

Telsa