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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Peter Korsten <peterk@IAEhv.nl>
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Subject: Re: xterm won't work
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On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Peter Korsten wrote:

> I'm not really sure where to post this, so this seems to be the
> address.
> 
> I'm having trouble starting an xterm on my machine. When I do try
> to start one, I get "inappropiate ioctl for device. After reading
> through a ktrace dump, I see that there's an open() on /dev/tty
> and four consecutive ioctl()'s are performed on that. All fail,
> because /dev/tty doesn't seem to be a tty (according to the error
> message). I'm running 2.1.5.

Put 

options "COMPAT_43"

back in your kernel config, recompile, reinstall.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major