From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 06:47:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA19276 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 06:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA19271 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 06:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id GAA20752 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 06:47:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA21813; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:51:30 +0300 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 16:51:30 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm broken on 2.1.5-RELEASE / XFree86 3.1.2S In-Reply-To: <199608061309.GAA17810@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi there, > > I just upgraded my 2.0.5 system to 2.1.5. Everything works > wonderfully except for xterm which gives me a > > Error 23, errno 25. Inappropriate ioctl for device. > > It seems this is related to the pty that the xterm opens, since I can > start an xterm on a known file descriptor, for example. Emacs (which > I assume uses ptys for subprocesses and subshells) also works fine. > I've tried regenerating the pty devices with MAKEDEV, also to no avail. > > Help would be *much* appreciated. > > Cheers =8-} Mike > Did you build a custom kernel? If you did, then perhaps you removed 4.3BSD compatibilty - put it back, it is required for xterm. If you did not - I really don't know what's wrong. Sander