From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 15 10:32:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0331037B424 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 10:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4FHWH368964; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:32:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4FHWG590652; Tue, 15 May 2001 18:32:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200105151732.f4FHWG590652@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Huh??!? xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory In-Reply-To: Message from Szilveszter Adam of "Tue, 15 May 2001 19:16:44 +0200." <20010515191644.A15886@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:32:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you got v1.23 of sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c and are you running as non-root ? > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:34:27AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > David Wolfskill wrote: > > > > > Built -CURRENT & rebooted after mergemaster as usual, and some X > > > applications (xbattbar; xlockmore; oclock) work OK, but no xterm. At > > > least, not from X (XF86-4.0.3). I tried using Ctl-Alt-F2 to get to > > > a non-X login, logged in , set DISPLAY to m147:0.0, issued "xterm &", > > > and got an xterm OK. > > > > Known problem. phk changed the semantics of /dev/tty in the most recent > > commits. Traditional behavior for a process *without* a controlling tty > > when it opens /dev/tty is to get ENXIO. > > I am confused now. I have just finished building and installing world and > kernel from top-of-the-tree sources: > > FreeBSD fonix.hos.u-szeged.hu 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #42: Tue May > 15 18 > :32:49 CEST 2001 root@fonix.hos.u-szeged.hu:/usr/src/sys/compile/FONIX > i386 > > and I am (for the first time ever) a proud owner of a devfs-powered FreeBSD > system. So far things are looking A-OK. > > Having read about all the trouble people were having with xterms, I grew a > bit anxious and fired up X. It crashed because the config file contained > /dev/mouse and that node no longer exists, but of course correcting it to > /dev/sysmouse made things work. Then... I proceeded to open an xterm... and > it opened! Just right-clicked the root window and chose xterm form the > popup menu and it worked without any patch... although I am confident I do > have the latest of phk-s commits and I am running on a new kernel... I am > using XFree-3.3.6 and olvwm if that at all counts... of course I am happy > to see no problems but why are others seeing them? > > -- > Regards: > > Szilveszter ADAM > Szeged University > Szeged Hungary -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message