SueD Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Got Slack 12.0 installed today. As I had anticipated, there were no problems and the install went great. But I seem to have an issue when trying to open the terminal...I get the following error message... Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletyped). It is likely that this is due to an incorrect configuration of the PTY devices. Konsole needs to have read/write access to the PTY devices.What's that message mean?Also, I can't open Kopete. I get nothing when I try.There may be other issues but I'll list them here as I find them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Hi SueDid you create a user and are you logged in as that user ?Do you have a separate /home partition and did you not format it during the install ? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 Hi SueDid you create a user and are you logged in as that user ?Do you have a separate /home partition and did you not format it during the install ? BrunoYup, created a user after first boot with adduser sue. After that, I used your tips to fix my scroll mouse then configured things so I'd be able to boot into the GUI. Afterward, I installed Swaret but didn't manage to do anything further since I had to go out. It was after that I noticed I can't open a terminal.Yes, I've got separate / and /home partitions. And both were formatted during install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Wait a minute: you say you fixed the scroll mouse then configured things so you'd be able to boot into the GUI. Afterward, you installed Swaret . . . so you had a working terminal before you left . . . . Only when you returned you had problems . . . could it be that you messed up your /etc/inittab or your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and only noticed after reboot when you came back ?Can you still log in as root and use the terminal ? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 Wait a minute: you say you fixed the scroll mouse then configured things so you'd be able to boot into the GUI. Afterward, you installed Swaret . . . so you had a working terminal before you left . . . . Only when you returned you had problems . . . could it be that you messed up your /etc/inittab or your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and only noticed after reboot when you came back ?Can you still log in as root and use the terminal ? BrunoYes, that's exactly what I did.While waiting for your response I rebooted. That may have been a mistake.LOL I'm now on my laptop. You may be right and I may have buggered something up, although I'm always very careful when I do have to configure something. Right now, I've got a row of error messagesINIT: cannot execute "/etc/re.d/rc.4"INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"INIT: Id "x1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutesThey are all repeated over and over again.I screwed something up, didn't I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Looks like the /etc/inittab is screwed up ( probably while setting the runlevel to 4 )It looks like you are facing a re-install . . . . and in the future make backups of the files you edit so you can do an "easy fix" by restoring the backup. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted July 8, 2007 Author Share Posted July 8, 2007 Okey dokes. Thanks Bruno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Ok Bruno, after reinstallation, everything's working perfectly. All I've got to do is add Mandriva to Lilo, but that can wait till tomorrow now. I be happy and may have to look awfully hard to find anything to complain about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 . . That is good news Sue . . . glad you are up and running again. . . Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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