Kernel 2.6 eterm xterm don't work
 

I just cooked myself a new 2.6.3 kernel and everything works great with one exception: xterm and eterm do not open up anymore...and I can't figure out why...

Basically what happens is that when I click to open eterm, it opens up breifly and imediately closes by itself. The xterm window opens, but the shell never loads and continues to be completely blank.

When i load up 2.4.x kernel version everything works fine.

Thanks much.

Someone please help!!!
Life without a comand line is impossible!!

thanks much.

Um... it has something to do with the fact that xterm (and most other X-terminals) use the /dev/pty nodes in the /dev directory. I have to same problem but i can't seem to enable /dev/pty on kernel 2.6. I do however have some other characters devices such as /dev/ptya0 but I dont' think the x terminals use those.

Anyone help?

can anyone please help us out?

I have that in my /etc/fstab with kernel 2.6.4.

do you have this in your kernel .config?

Ah yes...

Actually I solve the problem quite a while ago but forgot about this thread.

I read somewhere that kernel 2.5x and 2.6 no longer mount /dev/pts when they mount /dev at boot time, so you have to manually mount it. Editing your /etc/fstab file to automatically mount at boot time is the easiest way to do it.

(Read above post by llamakc to know what line to add).