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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 06:21:08 +0000
From:      Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To:        Kelsey Cummings <kgc@sonic.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KDE2 konsole prolems
Message-ID:  <00110806210801.04755@marbsd.tninet.se>
In-Reply-To: <3A08AC51.47AD864E@sonic.net>
References:  <3A08AC51.47AD864E@sonic.net>

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On Wednesday 08 November 2000 01:28, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
> I've been having some troubles with KDE2 since I upgraded to the stable
> release out of the ports tree.  It's alot better overall, but:
>
> konsole fails if started from the task bar, the 'run' menu, or at
> startup by the system.  When started by the task bar it gets a SIGABRT,
> and nothing to informative is revealed looking at the Crash Hanlder's
> backrace.  (at least not to me, so I've included it at the bottom of
> this email.)
>
> The second problem appears to be with konsole_grantpty.  When started
> from an xterm, which launches just fine from run, konsole pops up as
> expected, works just fine, but this error displays on the controlling
> xterm:
>
> $konsole
> konsole_grantpty: cannot determine the name of device.
> konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp2::/dev/ttyp2.
>
>        : This means the session can be eavesdroped.
>        : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in
>        : /usr/local/bin/ and setuid root.
>
> Unknown child process 1922 died
> konsole: setgroups: Operation not permitted
>
> $ ls -lsa /usr/local/bin/konsole_grantpty
> 33 -rwsr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  33252 Nov  7 17:06
> /usr/local/bin/konsole_grantpty
>
> So it is installed and setuid.
>
> Perhaps someone here has some suggestions on how to resolve this
> problem?  I think it's safe to assume that this is a fBSD port problem
> and not something that's broken in kde2.  Interestingly enough, in the
> kde2-prerelease it was working just fine, even though I belive that I
> still had the problem with the konsole_grantpty.
>
see http://bugs.kde.org/db/pa/lkonsole.html


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