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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 54740] cannot open a new konsole window
From:       Adriaan De Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2003-05-08 20:39:49
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------- Additional Comments From adridg@cs.kun.nl  2003-05-08 22:39 -------
This is konsole's way of complaining that no ptys can be written by you as a user. 
Because of a (long standing and very hard to track down) bug in the 
konsole_grantpty code, konsole_grantpty doesn't actually run or reassign 
permissions to the pty. A basic fix, on a _single_user_ system where you trust the 
security, is to (as root) 
 
* Add your normal user account to a group, say ttys 
* chgrp ttys /dev/pty* 
* chmod 660 /dev/pty* 
 
Alternatively, you could just chown 666 /dev/pty*, but this is a hack. 
 
If you search the archives of kde-freebsd at 
https://lists.csociety.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/ you may find other threads (by me) 
about hunting that bug.
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