Startx Permission problems on /dev/null and /dev/mem on freshly compiled 2.6.22.1

Eric_Cartman · 07-18-2007, 07:08 AM

Hi,everyone,
I am having strange behavior on my new compiled by myself kernel.It is 2.6.22.1.Eveytime I boot it goes in init3 instead in init5,which is set as default in /etc/inittab.Then I login as regular user and got some lines:

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/dev/null : Permission denied

.I do:

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#chmod 0666 /dev/null

and it seems ok.Then I do:

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startx

and got complaint:

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Cannot open /dev/mem

.After that I check it out and there is no such a directory.So,I create it:

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makedev /dev mem

,then I

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chmod 0666 /dev/mem

,then

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startx

and it runs.In my GUI(I use KDE) I got this when I start Konsole:

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Konsole is unable to open a PTY (pseudo teletype). It is likely that this is due to an incorrect configuration of the PTY devices. Konsole needs to have read/write access to the PTY devices.

.Then I press OK on the Error Window and Konsole crash.Xterm can't start either,no error message,though.I tried to create a /dev/pty,dev/pts/pty but it won't,no error message.
The worst part and theme on my post is that after every reboot I have to do all this steps again and again.
Any suggestions?

Sincerely,
Eric_Cartman

jayjwa · 07-22-2007, 03:28 PM

Did you include devpts file system in the kernel? You might be able to set some of those files that are getting clobbered as immutable and see what sqwauks about not being able to 'rm /dev/mem' or whatever. (chattr +i /the/file, don't forget to set them chattr -i /the/file after you're done testing). Note some of those won't be able to be set immutable because they need to be written to, but perhaps you could find one that will. It looks like you've got some misbehaving boot scripts, or maybe, if you use udev, something is wrong with it? I don't use udev myself.

I just downloaded this kernel, I'll put it on later tonight and see if I hit similar errors, then post back.

Fr1z2r · 09-09-2007, 01:42 AM

I have the same problem. Are there any solutions for this? Devpts is mounted in my system.